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Quiz

#1446 Consecutive Characters

APPROACH

The power of the string is the maximum length of a non-empty substring that contains only one unique character.

Given a string s, return the power of s.

Example 1:

Input: s = "leetcode"

Output: 2

Explanation: The substring "ee" is of length 2 with the character 'e' only.

Example 2:

Input: s = "abbcccddddeeeeedcba"

Output: 5

Explanation: The substring "eeeee" is of length 5 with the character 'e' only.

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