1446

1446. Consecutive Characters (Easy)

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.

Example 3:

Input: s = "triplepillooooow"
Output: 5

Example 4:

Input: s = "hooraaaaaaaaaaay"
Output: 11

Example 5:

Input: s = "tourist"
Output: 1

 

Constraints:

• 1 <= s.length <= 500
• s consists of only lowercase English letters.

Companies:
Microsoft

Related Topics:
String

Similar Questions:

• Max Consecutive Ones (Easy)
• Count Number of Homogenous Substrings (Medium)

Solution 1.

// OJ: https://leetcode.com/problems/consecutive-characters/
// Author: github.com/lzl124631x
// Time: O(N)
// Space: O(1)
class Solution {
public:
    int maxPower(string s) {
        int ans = 1, cnt = 1;
        for (int i = 1; i < s.size(); ++i) {
            if (s[i] == s[i - 1]) ans = max(ans, ++cnt);
            else cnt = 1;
        }
        return ans;
    }
};

Or

// OJ: https://leetcode.com/problems/consecutive-characters/
// Author: github.com/lzl124631x
// Time: O(N)
// Space: O(1)
class Solution {
public:
    int maxPower(string s) {
        int start = 0, ans = 0;
        for (int i = 0; i < s.size(); ++i) {
            if (s[i] == s[start]) ans = max(ans, i - start + 1);
            else start = i;
        }
        return ans;
    }
};