DCP-410: Sanvi and Magical String Back to All Problems

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**Sanvi** called a string, **Magical String** if all the letters of the string are identical. <br>For example "**aaaa**", "**zzz**" etc are **Magical String** whereas "aaaab", "bbbbz" etc are not.<br> You are given a string consisting of **lowercase letters only**. Your task is to convert the given string into **Magical String** in minimum number of steps.<br> In each step, you may select any index of the current string and convert the letter at that index into another letter of your choice. Input: ------ Input starts with an integer **T (1<=T<=20)**, denoting the number of test cases.<br>Each case contains an integer **N (1 ≤ N ≤ 1000)** denoting the length of the given string. <br>Next line contain a string of length exactly **N**. Output: ------- For each case of input, output the the minimum number of steps needed to change the given string into Magical string. Sample Input ------------ 2 2 ab 3 aaa Sample Output ------------- 1 0 ---------- **Explanation of sample:**<br> In the first case, Sanvi can change given string to "aa" or "bb", both require 1 steps.<br> In second case, Given string is already a Magical String.

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Bishal Gautam

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Language Time Limit (seconds)
C 1.00
C++ 1.00
C++14 1.00
C# 2.00
Go 2.00
Java 2.00
JavaScript 2.00
Objective-C 2.00
Perl 2.00
PHP 2.00
Python 2.00
Python3 2.00
Ruby 2.00
VB.Net 2.00

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