Day 45 of 100 Days LeetCode Challenge

LeetCode Challenge #58. Length of Last Word

Given a string s consisting of words and spaces, return the length of the last word in the string.

word is a maximal 

 

 consisting of non-space characters only.

 

Example 1:

Input: s = "Hello World"
Output: 5
Explanation: The last word is "World" with length 5.

Example 2:

Input: s = "   fly me   to   the moon  "
Output: 4
Explanation: The last word is "moon" with length 4.

Example 3:

Input: s = "luffy is still joyboy"
Output: 6
Explanation: The last word is "joyboy" with length 6.

 

Constraints:

  • 1 <= s.length <= 104
  • s consists of only English letters and spaces ' '.
  • There will be at least one word in s.
Video Solution
Java Solution
				
					class Solution {
    public int lengthOfLastWord(String s) {
       int count = 0 ;

       for(int i=s.length()-1;i>=0;i--){

           char ch = s.charAt(i);

           if(ch!=' '){
               count++;
           }else if ( count!=0){
               break;
           }

       }

       return count ;

           }
}
				
			

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