You are working on a video game, and you need to calculate the base damage from a combo move the player enters on the controller.
You are given a string representing the buttons pressed by the player. These are the possible buttons:
A
B
X
Y
L
R
U
D
Player input might look like this: AUBDBDAAUXL
The base damage from a combo is equal to the number of buttons the player pressed in a row without pressing the same button twice in a row. Pressing the same button twice in a row ends the combo.
For the above example, the return value should be 7
, because after the 7th button was pressed (the A
button), that same button was pressed again and broke the combo.