DIY: Longest Substring with At Most K Distinct Characters
Solve the interview question "Longest Substring with At Most K Distinct Characters" in this lesson.
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Problem statement
Given a string, find the length of the longest substring tt
that contains at most k
distinct characters.
Input
The input will contain a string s
and an integer k
. The following is an example input:
"cdaba", 3
Output
The output will be an integer representing the length of the longest substring. The following is an example output:
4
The substring daba
is the longest string in the above input that has 3 distinct characters.
Coding exercise
Implement the length_of_longest_substring_k_distinct(s, k)
function, where s
is the string and k
is the integer. The function returns the length of the longest substring that has k
distinct characters.
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