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Consecutive Characters

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Problem statement

The power of a string is the maximum length of a nonempty contiguous substring containing only one repeated character. Return the power of text. Return 0 for an empty string.

Function

maxConsecutivePower(text: String) → int

Examples

Example 1

text = "abbcccddddeeeeedcba"return = 5

The longest run is five e characters.

Constraints

0 <= text.length <= 10^5.