【leetcode】3. Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters

/**
 * Given a string, find the length of the longest substring without repeating characters. 
 * For example, the longest substring without repeating letters for "abcabcbb" is "abc", 
 * which the length is 3. For "bbbbb" the longest substring is "b", with the length of 1.
 *
 */
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <vector>
using namespace std;

int lengthOfLongestSubstring(string s) {

    int str_len = s.size(), i =0, max_len = 0, len = 0, start = 0;

    //可见字符最多256个
    vector<int> hash(256, -1);

    for (; i < str_len; i++)
    {
        //hash[s[i]] < 0 是新字符
        //hash[s[i]] < start 是之前出现过，但已废弃，start是重复字符之后一位的位置
        // 例如： abcdb
        // 我们遍历到abcd，然后发现b重复，那么后面其实是从c开始，start记录c的位置
        // 但是a由于b的影响也就被作废了，但是这个时候a在hash中
        // 的下标还是0，但是小于start，所以相当于也是合法的字符
        if (hash[s[i]] < 0 || hash[s[i]] < start)
        {
            len++;
        }
        else
        {
            max_len = max_len > len ? max_len : len;
            //记录不重复字符的长度，减去重复字符之前的长度
            len -= hash[s[i]] - start;
            //start是重复字符之后一位的位置
            start = hash[s[i]] + 1;

        }
        hash[s[i]] = i;     
    }
    return max_len > len ? max_len : len;
}

int lengthOfLongestSubstring1(string s) 
{
    vector<int> dict(256, -1);
    int maxLen = 0, start = -1;
    for (int i = 0; i != s.length(); i++) {
        if (dict[s[i]] > start)
            start = dict[s[i]];
        dict[s[i]] = i;
        maxLen = max(maxLen, i - start);
    }
    return maxLen;
}

int main()
{
    //string s("abcdbefgbijklmnopqb");//13
    string s("abcdbefgb"); //6
    cout << lengthOfLongestSubstring(s) << endl;
    system("pause");
    return 0;
}