#K57762. Longest Non-Consecutive Subsequence
Longest Non-Consecutive Subsequence
Longest Non-Consecutive Subsequence
Given a binary string S, determine the length of the longest subsequence that can be formed such that no two consecutive elements in the subsequence are the same. A subsequence is obtained by deleting zero or more characters from S without changing the order of the remaining characters.
For example, consider the string S = "1101001"
. One valid subsequence is "10101"
which has length 5. In mathematical terms, if we denote the answer as L, then
Here, \(\mathbb{1}(\cdot)\) is the indicator function that is 1 if the condition is true, and 0 otherwise.
Some examples:
S = "11111"
returns 1.S = "10101010"
returns 8.S = "101"
returns 3.S = ""
(an empty string) returns 0.
inputFormat
The input consists of a single line containing the binary string S. The string only contains the characters '0' and '1'.
outputFormat
Output a single integer representing the length of the longest subsequence of S in which no two consecutive characters are the same.
## sample1101001
5