Given a string, find the length of the longest substring T that contains at most 2 distinct characters.
For example, Given s = “eceba”,
T is "ece" which its length is 3.
用start2和start1来标志包括两个元素的头和只包括一个元素的头,然后iterate直到i,每次i位置都分情况讨论。
public int lengthOfLongestSubstringTwoDistinct(String s) {
if (s.length() == 0) return 0;
int start2 = 0;
int start1 = 0;
int result = 1;
for (int i = 1; i < s.length(); i++) {
if ( s.charAt(i) != s.charAt(i-1)) {
if (start1 == 0 || s.charAt(i) != s.charAt(start1 - 1)) {
start2 = start1;
}
start1 = i;
}
result = Math.max(result, i - start2 + 1);
}
return result;
}
//follow up : exactly 2 distinct characters
//int start2;
//start2可能会不取值,当一直为一个值时。