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LC-0058 Easy LeetCode

58. Length of Last Word

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Difficulty: easy Acceptance: 56% Topics: String
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Reference solution (spoiler · python)
# Time:  O(n)
# Space: O(1)

class Solution(object):
    # @param s, a string
    # @return an integer
    def lengthOfLastWord(self, s):
        length = 0
        for i in reversed(s):
            if i == ' ':
                if length:
                    break
            else:
                length += 1
        return length

# Time:  O(n)
# Space: O(n)
class Solution2(object):
    # @param s, a string
    # @return an integer
    def lengthOfLastWord(self, s):
        return len(s.strip().split(" ")[-1])

Solution from kamyu104/LeetCode-Solutions · MIT