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Boring String

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A string is called *boring* if all the characters of the string are **same**. You are given a string $S$ of length $N$, consisting of lowercase english alphabets. Find the length of the longest *boring* substring of $S$ which occurs **more than once**. Note that if there is no *boring* substring which occurs more than once in $S$, the answer will be $0$. A substring is obtained by deleting some

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