TSS '22 CC P1 - Mud Puddles
View as PDFYou have decided to go hiking on a trail consisting of characters.
Each character will be one of the following:
-representing dry ground*representing wet mud
Before your trip, you decide to count the number of mud puddles to make sure you're not getting too dirty. Any contiguous sequence of * is considered one mud puddle.
Given and a string representing the trail, output the total number of mud puddles.
Constraints
Input Specification
The first line of input contains an integer .
The second line of input contains characters (
- or *) representing the trail.
Output Specification
Output a single integer, the total number of mud puddles.
Sample Input
12
***---****-*
Sample Output
3
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