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Minimal Operations

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Problem statement

For each word in a list of words, if any two adjacent characters are equal, change one of them. Determine the minimum number of substitutions so the final string contains no adjacent equal characters.

Function

minimalOperations(words: String[]) → int[]

Complete the function minimalOperations in the editor below.

minimalOperations has the following parameter(s):

string words[n]: an array of strings

Returns int[n]: each element i is the minimum substitutions for words[i]

Examples

Example 1

words = ["add", "boook", "break"]return = [1, 1, 0]

'add': change one d (1 change)
'boook': change the middle o (1 change)
'break': no changes are necessary (0 changes)

The return array is [1, 1, 0].

Example 2

words = ["ab", "aab", "abb", "abab", "abaaaba"]return = [0, 1, 1, 0, 1]

Unknown for now. Will add once find the reference :)

Constraints

1 ≤ n ≤ 100
2 ≤ length of words[i] ≤ 10⁵
Each character of words[i] is in the range ascii[a-z]