Longest Substring with At Most Two Distinct Characters (Leetcode 159) Solution - Top Google Interview Question
Given a string s, return the length of the longest substring that contains at most two
distinct characters.
Example 1:
Input: s = "eceba" Output: 3 Explanation: The substring is "ece" which its length is 3.
Example 2:
Input: s = "ccaabbb" Output: 5 Explanation: The substring is "aabbb" which its length is 5.
Constraints:
1 <= s.length <= 104sconsists of English letters.
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/**
* Time Complexity: O(n)
* Space Complexity: O(X) : X is the number of distinct characters in the input.
*/
class Solution {
public int lengthOfLongestSubstringTwoDistinct(String s) {
Map<Character, Integer> map = new HashMap<>();
int max = 0;
int l = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < s.length(); i++) {
char ch = s.charAt(i);
Integer val = 1 + map.getOrDefault(ch, 0);
map.put(ch, val);
while (map.size() > 2 && l <= i) {
char lchar = s.charAt(l);
val = map.get(lchar) - 1;
map.put(lchar, val);
if (val == 0) {
map.remove(lchar);
}
l++;
}
max = Math.max(max, i - l + 1);
}
return max;
}
}