Alternating characters
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Shashank likes strings in which consecutive characters are different. For example, he likes ABABA, while he doesn't like ABAA. Given a string containing characters A and B only, he wants to change it into a string he likes. To do this, he is allowed to delete the characters in the string. Your task is to find the minimum number of required deletions. Input The first line contains an integer T
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