LengthOfLastWord

Problem

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

Solution

Strip all the whitespace from the end of the string, then split the string by spaces. The last element in the list is the last word in the string.

Code

https://github.com/GeorgeRPu/tech-interview-prep/blob/main/solutions/LengthOfLastWord.py

def lengthOfLastWord(s: str) -> int:
    """Finds the length of the last word in a string.
    """
    return len(s.strip().split(' ')[-1])

Test

>>> from LengthOfLastWord import lengthOfLastWord
>>> lengthOfLastWord('Hello World')
5
>>> lengthOfLastWord('   fly me   to   the moon  ')
4
>>> lengthOfLastWord('luffy is still joyboy')
6

Functions

lengthOfLastWord(s)

Finds the length of the last word in a string.