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Quiz

#1446 Consecutive Characters

APPROACH

Define the power of a string as the length of its longest non-empty run of identical characters. Given a string s, compute and return its power.

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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