Problem:
Score : 300 points

Problem Statement

Two foxes Jiro and Saburo are playing a game called 1D Reversi. This game is played on a board, using black and white stones. On the board, stones are placed in a row, and each player places a new stone to either end of the row. Similarly to the original game of Reversi, when a white stone is placed, all black stones between the new white stone and another white stone, turn into white stones, and vice versa.

In the middle of a game, something came up and Saburo has to leave the game. The state of the board at this point is described by a string S. There are |S| (the length of S) stones on the board, and each character in S represents the color of the i-th (1 ≦ i ≦ |S|) stone from the left. If the i-th character in S is B, it means that the color of the corresponding stone on the board is black. Similarly, if the i-th character in S is W, it means that the color of the corresponding stone is white.

Jiro wants all stones on the board to be of the same color. For this purpose, he will place new stones on the board according to the rules. Find the minimum number of new stones that he needs to place.

Constraints

1 ≦ |S| ≦ 10^5

Each character in S is B or W.

Input

The input is given from Standard Input in the following format:

S

Output

Print the minimum number of new stones that Jiro needs to place for his purpose.

Sample Input 1

BBBWW

Sample Output 1

1

By placing a new black stone to the right end of the row of stones, all white stones will become black. Also, by placing a new white stone to the left end of the row of stones, all black stones will become white.

In either way, Jiro's purpose can be achieved by placing one stone.

Sample Input 2

WWWWWW

Sample Output 2

0

If all stones are already of the same color, no new stone is necessary.

Sample Input 3

WBWBWBWBWB

Sample Output 3

9

Solution in Java8 (OpenJDK 1.8.0) (judge verdict: Accepted)


import java.io.*;
import java.math.*;
import java.util.*;

import static java.util.Arrays.*;

public class Main {
	private static final int mod = (int)1e9+7;

	final Random random = new Random(0);
	final IOFast io = new IOFast();

	/// MAIN CODE
	public void run() throws IOException {
//		int TEST_CASE = Integer.parseInt(new String(io.nextLine()).trim());
		int TEST_CASE = 1;
		while(TEST_CASE-- != 0) {
			char[] cs = io.next();
			int cnt = 0;
			for (int i = 0; i < cs.length - 1; i++) {
				if (cs[i] != cs[i+1]) cnt++;
			}
			io.out.println(cnt);
		}
	}

	/// TEMPLATE
	static int gcd(int n, int r) { return r == 0 ? n : gcd(r, n%r); }
	static long gcd(long n, long r) { return r == 0 ? n : gcd(r, n%r); }
	
	static <T> void swap(T[] x, int i, int j) { T t = x[i]; x[i] = x[j]; x[j] = t; }
	static void swap(int[] x, int i, int j) { int t = x[i]; x[i] = x[j]; x[j] = t; }

	void printArrayLn(int[] xs) { for(int i = 0; i < xs.length; i++) io.out.print(xs[i] + (i==xs.length-1?"\n":" ")); }
	void printArrayLn(long[] xs) { for(int i = 0; i < xs.length; i++) io.out.print(xs[i] + (i==xs.length-1?"\n":" ")); }
	
	static void dump(Object... o) { System.err.println(Arrays.deepToString(o)); } 
	
	void main() throws IOException {
		//		IOFast.setFileIO("rle-size.in", "rle-size.out");
		try { run(); }
		catch (EndOfFileRuntimeException e) { }
		io.out.flush();
	}
	public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { new Main().main(); }
	
	static class EndOfFileRuntimeException extends RuntimeException {
		private static final long serialVersionUID = -8565341110209207657L; }

	static
	public class IOFast {
		private BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
		private PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(System.out);

		void setFileIn(String ins) throws IOException { in.close(); in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(ins)); }
		void setFileOut(String outs) throws IOException { out.flush(); out.close(); out = new PrintWriter(new FileWriter(outs)); }
		void setFileIO(String ins, String outs) throws IOException { setFileIn(ins); setFileOut(outs); }

		private static int pos, readLen;
		private static final char[] buffer = new char[1024 * 8];
		private static char[] str = new char[500*8*2];
		private static boolean[] isDigit = new boolean[256];
		private static boolean[] isSpace = new boolean[256];
		private static boolean[] isLineSep = new boolean[256];

		static { for(int i = 0; i < 10; i++) { isDigit['0' + i] = true; } isDigit['-'] = true; isSpace[' '] = isSpace['\r'] = isSpace['\n'] = isSpace['\t'] = true; isLineSep['\r'] = isLineSep['\n'] = true; }
		public int read() throws IOException { if(pos >= readLen) { pos = 0; readLen = in.read(buffer); if(readLen <= 0) { throw new EndOfFileRuntimeException(); } } return buffer[pos++]; }
		public int nextInt() throws IOException { int len = 0; str[len++] = nextChar(); len = reads(len, isSpace); int i = 0; int ret = 0; if(str[0] == '-') { i = 1; } for(; i < len; i++) ret = ret * 10 + str[i] - '0'; if(str[0] == '-') { ret = -ret; } return ret; }
		public long nextLong() throws IOException { int len = 0; str[len++] = nextChar(); len = reads(len, isSpace); int i = 0; long ret = 0; if(str[0] == '-') { i = 1; } for(; i < len; i++) ret = ret * 10 + str[i] - '0'; if(str[0] == '-') { ret = -ret; } return ret; }
		public char nextChar() throws IOException { while(true) { final int c = read(); if(!isSpace[c]) { return (char)c; } } }
		int reads(int len, boolean[] accept) throws IOException { try { while(true) { final int c = read(); if(accept[c]) { break; } if(str.length == len) { char[] rep = new char[str.length * 3 / 2]; System.arraycopy(str, 0, rep, 0, str.length); str = rep; } str[len++] = (char)c; } } catch(EndOfFileRuntimeException e) { ; } return len; }
		int reads(char[] cs, int len, boolean[] accept) throws IOException { try { while(true) { final int c = read(); if(accept[c]) { break; } cs[len++] = (char)c; } } catch(EndOfFileRuntimeException e) { ; } return len; }
		public char[] nextLine() throws IOException { int len = 0; str[len++] = nextChar(); len = reads(len, isLineSep); try { if(str[len-1] == '\r') { len--; read(); } } catch(EndOfFileRuntimeException e) { ; } return Arrays.copyOf(str, len); }
		public String nextString() throws IOException { return new String(next()); }
		public char[] next() throws IOException { int len = 0; str[len++] = nextChar(); len = reads(len, isSpace); return Arrays.copyOf(str, len); }
//		public int next(char[] cs) throws IOException { int len = 0; cs[len++] = nextChar(); len = reads(cs, len, isSpace); return len; }
		public double nextDouble() throws IOException { return Double.parseDouble(nextString()); }
		public long[] nextLongArray(final int n) throws IOException { final long[] res = new long[n]; for(int i = 0; i < n; i++) { res[i] = nextLong(); } return res; }
		public int[] nextIntArray(final int n) throws IOException { final int[] res = new int[n]; for(int i = 0; i < n; i++) { res[i] = nextInt(); } return res; }
		public int[][] nextIntArray2D(final int n, final int k) throws IOException { final int[][] res = new int[n][]; for(int i = 0; i < n; i++) { res[i] = nextIntArray(k); } return res; }
		public int[][] nextIntArray2DWithIndex(final int n, final int k) throws IOException { final int[][] res = new int[n][k+1]; for(int i = 0; i < n; i++) { for(int j = 0; j < k; j++) { res[i][j] = nextInt(); } res[i][k] = i; } return res; }
		public double[] nextDoubleArray(final int n) throws IOException { final double[] res = new double[n]; for(int i = 0; i < n; i++) { res[i] = nextDouble(); } return res; }
	}
}