Implement LengthOfLastWord algorithm and add JUnit tests (#7057)

* Implement LengthOfLastWord algorithm in strings package

* Add JUnit tests for LengthOfLastWord algorithm

* style: fix import order and spacing for clang-format
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Gopal Gupta
2025-12-20 19:12:34 +05:30
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package com.thealgorithms.strings;
/**
* The {@code LengthOfLastWord} class provides a utility method to determine
* the length of the last word in a given string.
*
* <p>A "word" is defined as a maximal substring consisting of non-space
* characters only. Trailing spaces at the end of the string are ignored.
*
* <p><strong>Example:</strong>
* <pre>{@code
* LengthOfLastWord obj = new LengthOfLastWord();
* System.out.println(obj.lengthOfLastWord("Hello World")); // Output: 5
* System.out.println(obj.lengthOfLastWord(" fly me to the moon ")); // Output: 4
* System.out.println(obj.lengthOfLastWord("luffy is still joyboy")); // Output: 6
* }</pre>
*
* <p>This implementation runs in O(n) time complexity, where n is the length
* of the input string, and uses O(1) additional space.
*/
public class LengthOfLastWord {
/**
* Returns the length of the last word in the specified string.
*
* <p>The method iterates from the end of the string, skipping trailing
* spaces first, and then counts the number of consecutive non-space characters
* characters until another space (or the beginning of the string) is reached.
*
* @param s the input string to analyze
* @return the length of the last word in {@code s}; returns 0 if there is no word
* @throws NullPointerException if {@code s} is {@code null}
*/
public int lengthOfLastWord(String s) {
int sizeOfString = s.length() - 1;
int lastWordLength = 0;
// Skip trailing spaces from the end of the string
while (sizeOfString >= 0 && s.charAt(sizeOfString) == ' ') {
sizeOfString--;
}
// Count the characters of the last word
while (sizeOfString >= 0 && s.charAt(sizeOfString) != ' ') {
lastWordLength++;
sizeOfString--;
}
return lastWordLength;
}
}

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package com.thealgorithms.strings;
import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
public class LengthOfLastWordTest {
@Test
public void testLengthOfLastWord() {
assertEquals(5, new LengthOfLastWord().lengthOfLastWord("Hello World"));
assertEquals(4, new LengthOfLastWord().lengthOfLastWord(" fly me to the moon "));
assertEquals(6, new LengthOfLastWord().lengthOfLastWord("luffy is still joyboy"));
assertEquals(5, new LengthOfLastWord().lengthOfLastWord("Hello"));
assertEquals(0, new LengthOfLastWord().lengthOfLastWord(" "));
assertEquals(0, new LengthOfLastWord().lengthOfLastWord(""));
assertEquals(3, new LengthOfLastWord().lengthOfLastWord("JUST LIE "));
}
}