DIY: Longest Substring without Repeating Characters

Solve the interview question "Longest Substring without Repeating Characters" in this lesson.

Problem statement

In this coding example, you are given a string str. Your task is to find the longest substring without repeating characters. You also have to return the length of this longest substring.

Note: If a DNA sequence is empty (does not have any chromosomes), you will return its length, which will be 0.

Input

The input should be a string. The following are examples of input to the function:

// Sample Input 1:
"abcabcbb"

// Sample Input 2:
""

Output

The output should be a pair of a string and an integer that represents the longest substring without any repeating characters and its length respectively. The following are examples of outputs:

// Sample Output 1:
("abc", 3)

// Sample Output 2:
("", 0)

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