Leecode-58. Length of Last Word

Given a string s consists of upper/lower-case alphabets and empty space characters ' ', return the length of last word in the string.

If the last word does not exist, return 0.

Note: A word is defined as a character sequence consists of non-space characters only.

For example, 
Given s = "Hello World",
return 5.

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class Solution {
public:
    int lengthOfLastWord(string s) {
        
        int length=s.size();
        string buf="";
        for(int i=0;i<length;i++)
        {
            if(s[i]!=' ')
            buf+=s[i];
	    	if ((s[i] == ' ' && (s[i + 1] != ' ')) &&!( i == length - 1 && s[i] == ' '))
            buf="";

        }
        return buf.size();
    }
};