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[58] Length of Last Word

https://leetcode.com/problems/length-of-last-word/description/

  • algorithms
  • Easy (32.05%)
  • Source Code: 58.length-of-last-word.py
  • Total Accepted: 258.6K
  • Total Submissions: 802.6K
  • Testcase Example: '"Hello World"'

Given a string s consists of upper/lower-case alphabets and empty space characters ' ', return the length of last word in the string.

If the last word does not exist, return 0.

Note: A word is defined as a character sequence consists of non-space characters only.

Example:

Input: "Hello World" Output: 5

python
class Solution(object):
    def lengthOfLastWord(self, s):
        """
        :type s: str
        :rtype: int
        """
        s = s.split()
        if not s: return 0
        return len(s[-1])

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