Dsa
Strings
Medium
Longest Alternating Character Substring
Given a string `s`, write a program to find the length of the longest substring where no two adjacent characters are the same. Return this length.
### Input Format:
- A single line containing the string `s` (1 <= |s| <= 1000).
### Output Format:
- A single integer representing the length of the longest alternating character substring.
### Example:
Input:
abacabadabac
Output:
5
Explanation: The longest alternating substring is 'abaca', which has length 5.
Key concepts
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