Problem:
Score : 300 points

Problem Statement

You are given a string S of length N consisting of A, C, G and T. Answer the following Q queries:

Query i (1 \leq i \leq Q): You will be given integers l_i and r_i (1 \leq l_i < r_i \leq N). Consider the substring of S starting at index l_i and ending at index r_i (both inclusive). In this string, how many times does AC occurs as a substring?

Notes

A substring of a string T is a string obtained by removing zero or more characters from the beginning and the end of T.

For example, the substrings of ATCODER include TCO, AT, CODER, ATCODER and (the empty string), but not AC.

Constraints

2 \leq N \leq 10^5

1 \leq Q \leq 10^5

S is a string of length N.

Each character in S is A, C, G or T.

1 \leq l_i < r_i \leq N

Input

Input is given from Standard Input in the following format:

N Q
S
l_1 r_1
:
l_Q r_Q

Output

Print Q lines. The i-th line should contain the answer to the i-th query.

Sample Input 1

8 3
ACACTACG
3 7
2 3
1 8

Sample Output 1

2
0
3

Query 1: the substring of S starting at index 3 and ending at index 7 is ACTAC. In this string, AC occurs twice as a substring.

Query 2: the substring of S starting at index 2 and ending at index 3 is CA. In this string, AC occurs zero times as a substring.

Query 3: the substring of S starting at index 1 and ending at index 8 is ACACTACG. In this string, AC occurs three times as a substring.

Solution in Scala (2.11.7) (judge verdict: Accepted)

//import java.util.Scanner

import java.io._
import java.nio.file.Files._
import java.nio.file.Path
import java.util.StringTokenizer

import scala.collection.immutable._
import scala.io.Codec

/**
  * Scala implementation of a faster java.util.Scanner
  * See: http://codeforces.com/blog/entry/7018
  */

class Scanner(reader: LineNumberReader) extends Iterable[String] with AutoCloseable {
  def this(reader: BufferedReader) = this(new LineNumberReader(reader))

  def this(reader: Reader) = this(new BufferedReader(reader))

  def this(inputStream: InputStream)(implicit codec: Codec) = this(new InputStreamReader(inputStream, codec.charSet))

  def this(path: Path)(implicit codec: Codec) = this(newBufferedReader(path, codec.charSet))

  def this(file: File)(implicit codec: Codec) = this(file.toPath)(codec)

  def this(str: String) = this(new StringReader(str))

  override def iterator: Iterator[String] = for {
    line <- Iterator.continually(reader.readLine()).takeWhile(_ != null)
    tokenizer = new StringTokenizer(line)
    tokens <- Iterator.continually(tokenizer).takeWhile(_.hasMoreTokens)
  } yield tokens.nextToken()

  private[this] var current = iterator

  def hasNext: Boolean = current.hasNext

  @inline def next(): String = current.next()

  /**
    * This is different from Java's scanner.nextLine
    * The Java one is a misnomer since it actually travel to end of current line
    * This one actually does fetch the next line
    */
  def nextLine(): String = {
    val line = reader.readLine()
    current = iterator
    line
  }

  def lineNumber: Int = reader.getLineNumber

  def nextString(): String = next()

  def nextBoolean(): Boolean = next().toBoolean

  def nextByte(radix: Int = 10): Byte = java.lang.Byte.parseByte(next(), radix)

  def nextShort(radix: Int = 10): Short = java.lang.Short.parseShort(next(), radix)

  def nextInt(radix: Int = 10): Int = java.lang.Integer.parseInt(next(), radix)

  def nextLong(radix: Int = 10): Long = java.lang.Long.parseLong(next(), radix)

  def nextBigInt(radix: Int = 10): BigInt = BigInt(next(), radix)

  def nextFloat(): Float = next().toFloat

  def nextDouble(): Double = next().toDouble

  def nextBigDecimal(): BigDecimal = BigDecimal(next())

  override def close(): Unit = reader.close()
}


class IUnionFind(val size: Int) {

  private case class Node(var parent: Option[Int], var treeSize: Int)

  private val nodes = Array.fill[Node](size)(Node(None, treeSize = 1))

  def union(t1: Int, t2: Int): IUnionFind = {
    if (t1 == t2) return this

    val root1 = root(t1)
    val root2 = root(t2)
    if (root1 == root2) return this

    val node1 = nodes(root1)
    val node2 = nodes(root2)

    if (node1.treeSize < node2.treeSize) {
      node1.parent = Some(t2)
      node2.treeSize += node1.treeSize
    } else {
      node2.parent = Some(t1)
      node1.treeSize += node2.treeSize
    }
    this
  }

  def connected(t1: Int, t2: Int): Boolean = t1 == t2 || root(t1) == root(t2)

  def root(t: Int): Int = nodes(t).parent match {
    case None => t
    case Some(p) =>
      nodes(t).parent = Some(root(p))
      nodes(t).parent.get
  }
}


object Main {
  def solve(sc: => Scanner): Unit = {
    val N, Q = sc.nextInt()
    val E = Array.fill(N + 2)(0L)
    sc.next().sliding(2).zipWithIndex.foreach { case (s, i) => if (s == "AC") E(i + 1) += 1 }
    (1 to N + 1).foreach(i => E(i) += E(i - 1))

    (0 until Q).foreach { _ =>
      println(-E(sc.nextInt() - 1) + E(sc.nextInt() - 1))
    }
  }

  def getPermutation(begin: Long = 0): Stream[Long] =
    Stream.cons(begin, getPermutation(begin + 1))

  def calc(N: Long, R: Long, M: Long): Double = {
    math.sqrt(R * R - (R * 2 * ((M * 1.0 / N) - 0.5)) * (R * 2 * ((M * 1.0 / N) - 0.5))) * 2
  }

  def recursive(now: Long, count: Long): Long = {
    if (count == 1000) now else {
      if (now % 2 == 1) recursive(now * 3 + 1, count + 1) else recursive(now / 2, count + 1)
    }
  }

  def recursive2(X: Set[Long], Y: Stream[Long]): Long = if (X.contains(Y.head)) X.size else recursive2(X + Y.head, Y.tail)

  def check(s: String): Boolean = {
    if (s == "0") true
    else s(0) != '0' && 0 <= s.toInt && s.toInt <= 255
  }

  def shift(n: Long): Long = {
    if (n == 0) 0
    else if (n == 1) 1
    else shift(n - 1) << 1
  }

  def unShift(n: Long): Long = {
    if (n == 0) 0
    else unShift(n >> 1) + 1
  }

  def gcd(i: Long, j: Long): Long = {
    if (i < j) gcd(j, i)
    else if (j == 0) i
    else gcd(j, i % j)
  }

  def primeFactors(i: Long): List[Long] = primeFactors_(i, 1).sorted


  def primeFactors_(i: Long, j: Long): List[Long] = {
    if (j * j > i) List.empty else if (i % j == 0) primeFactors_(i, j + 1) ++ List[Long](j, i / j) else primeFactors_(i, j + 1)
  }

  def main(args: Array[String]): Unit = {
    val sc: Scanner = new Scanner(System.in)
    solve(sc)
  }
}

object Util {
  def getPermutation(begin: Long = 0): Stream[Long] =
    Stream.cons(begin, getPermutation(begin + 1))

  def getPrimeList: Stream[Long] =
    getPrimeListRecursive(getPermutation(begin = 2))

  private def getPrimeListRecursive(A: Stream[Long]): Stream[Long] =
    Stream.cons(A.head, getPrimeListRecursive(A.tail.filter(_ % A.head != 0)))

  def fib(a: Long = 0, b: Long = 1, mod: Long = Long.MaxValue): Stream[Long] = a #:: fib(b % mod, (a + b) % mod, mod)
}

object ArabicRoman {

  type =?>[A, B] = PartialFunction[A, B]

  val codeTable = List(
    (1000, "M"), (900, "CM"), (500, "D"), (400, "CD"), (100, "C"),
    (90, "XC"), (50, "L"), (40, "XL"), (10, "X"), (9, "IX"), (5, "V"), (4, "IV"), (1, "I"))

  val arabicToRoman: Int =?> String = {
    case src if src >= 1 && src <= 3999 =>

      def convert(left: Int, cont: String = "", code: List[(Int, String)] = codeTable): String = {
        val (unitVal, unitChar) = code.head
        left - unitVal match {
          case n if n == 0 => cont + unitChar
          case n if n > 0 => convert(n, cont + unitChar, code)
          case _ => convert(left, cont, code.tail)
        }
      }

      convert(src)
  }

  val romanToArabic: String =?> Int = {
    case src if Option(src).exists { s => {
      s.nonEmpty && """[^MDCLXVI]""".r.findFirstMatchIn(s.toUpperCase).isEmpty
    }
    } =>

      def convert(left: String, cont: Int = 0, code: List[(Int, String)] = codeTable): Int = {
        val (unitVal, unitChar) = code.head
        left.splitAt(unitChar.length) match {
          case ("", _) => cont
          case (`unitChar`, tail) => convert(tail, cont + unitVal, code)
          case _ => convert(left, cont, code.tail)
        }
      }

      convert(src.toUpperCase())
  }
}