// Author: Rodney Shaghoulian // Github: github.com/RodneyShag // HackerRank: hackerrank.com/RodneyShag import java.util.Scanner; // Each time we have 2 consecutive characters that are the same, we can delete 1 of them public class Solution { public static void main(String[] args) { Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in); int T = scan.nextInt(); while (T-- > 0) { String str = scan.next(); System.out.println(minimumDeletions(str)); } scan.close(); } private static int minimumDeletions(String str) { int deletions = 0; for (int i = 1; i < str.length(); i++) { if (str.charAt(i) == str.charAt(i-1)) { deletions++; } } return deletions; } }