[Solved] Given a string s consisting of words and spaces, return the length of the last word in the string. A word is a maximal substring consisting of non-space characters only.

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Question

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

word is a maximal substring 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.

Python Solution

class Solution:
    def lengthOfLastWord(self, s: str) -> int:
        s=s.strip()
        if s=="":
            return 0
        elif len(s.split())==1:
            return len(s)
        return len(s.split()[-1])

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