Solution: Longest Substring without Repeating Characters
Explore how to find the length of the longest substring without repeating characters using a sliding window approach. Understand why the naive method is inefficient and how a hash map can track character indices to optimize the solution. By following this lesson, you will learn to implement a linear time algorithm that efficiently manages window boundaries to maximize substring length without duplicates.
Statement
Given a string, input_str, return the length of the longest substring without repeating characters.
Constraints:
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input_str.length