Problem:
Score : 300 points

Problem Statement

There are N slimes lining up from left to right. The colors of these slimes will be given as a string S of length N consisting of lowercase English letters. The i-th slime from the left has the color that corresponds to the i-th character of S.

Adjacent slimes with the same color will fuse into one larger slime without changing the color. If there were a slime adjacent to this group of slimes before fusion, that slime is now adjacent to the new larger slime.

Ultimately, how many slimes will be there?

Constraints

1 \leq N \leq 10^5

|S| = N

S consists of lowercase English letters.

Input

Input is given from Standard Input in the following format:

N
S

Output

Print the final number of slimes.

Sample Input 1

10
aabbbbaaca

Sample Output 1

5

Ultimately, these slimes will fuse into abaca.

Sample Input 2

5
aaaaa

Sample Output 2

1

All the slimes will fuse into one.

Sample Input 3

20
xxzaffeeeeddfkkkkllq

Sample Output 3

10

Solution in Ruby (2.7.1) (judge verdict: Accepted)

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'set'

class Hash
  def push(key, value)
    self[key] = [] if self[key] == nil
    self[key].push(value)
  end
end

class Array
  def lower_bound(value)
    left = -1;
    right = self.length;
    while left + 1 < right
      mid = left + (right - left) / 2;
      if self[mid] >= value
        right = mid
      else
        left = mid
      end
    end
    right
  end

  def unique
    res = [self.first]
    each_cons(2) do |a, b|
      if a != b
        res.push(b)
      end
    end
    res
  end
end

def get_ints
  gets.chomp.split.map(&:to_i)
end

def get_ints_minus_one
  get_ints.map { |x| x - 1 }
end

def get_int
  gets.chomp.to_i
end

N = get_int
S = gets.chomp

sx = S.split('')

count = 0
last = nil
sx.each do |s|
  count += 1 if last != s
  last = s
end

puts count