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Given a string, return the length of the largest "block" in the string. A block is a run of adjacent chars that are the same.

maxBlock("hoopla") → 2
maxBlock("abbCCCddBBBxx") → 3
maxBlock("") → 0

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See also Java Example Code. Java help docs: If Boolean Logic | Strings | While and For Loops | Arrays and Loops


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