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import os
import sys
from io import BytesIO, IOBase
import math
from itertools import permutations
from decimal import Decimal, getcontext

getcontext().prec = 25
MOD = pow(10, 9) + 7
BUFSIZE = 8192


class FastIO(IOBase):
    newlines = 0

    def __init__(self, file):
        self._fd = file.fileno()
        self.buffer = BytesIO()
        self.writable = "x" in file.mode or "r" not in file.mode
        self.write = self.buffer.write if self.writable else None

    def read(self):
        while True:
            b = os.read(self._fd, max(os.fstat(self._fd).st_size, BUFSIZE))
            if not b:
                break
            ptr = self.buffer.tell()
            self.buffer.seek(0, 2), self.buffer.write(b), self.buffer.seek(ptr)
        self.newlines = 0
        return self.buffer.read()

    def readline(self):
        while self.newlines == 0:
            b = os.read(self._fd, max(os.fstat(self._fd).st_size, BUFSIZE))
            self.newlines = b.count(b"\n") + (not b)
            ptr = self.buffer.tell()
            self.buffer.seek(0, 2), self.buffer.write(b), self.buffer.seek(ptr)
        self.newlines -= 1
        return self.buffer.readline()

    def flush(self):
        if self.writable:
            os.write(self._fd, self.buffer.getvalue())
            self.buffer.truncate(0), self.buffer.seek(0)


class IOWrapper(IOBase):
    def __init__(self, file):
        self.buffer = FastIO(file)
        self.flush = self.buffer.flush
        self.writable = self.buffer.writable
        self.write = lambda s: self.buffer.write(s.encode("ascii"))
        self.read = lambda: self.buffer.read().decode("ascii")
        self.readline = lambda: self.buffer.readline().decode("ascii")


sys.stdin, sys.stdout = IOWrapper(sys.stdin), IOWrapper(sys.stdout)
input = lambda: sys.stdin.readline().rstrip("\r\n")

# n, k = map(int, input().split(" "))
# l = list(map(int, input().split(" ")))

n = int(input())
s = list(input())
c = 0
i = 0
while i < n-3:
    if s[i]==s[i+1]:
        if s[i+2]==s[i+3] and s[i]!= s[i+2]:
            c+=1
            s[i+1] = s[i+3]
            s[i+2] = s[i]
            i+=4
        else:
            i+=2
    else:
        i+=1
i = 0
while i < n-1:
    if i < n-2:
        if s[i]==s[i+1]:
            if s[i+2]==s[i]:
                i+=2
            else:
                i+=1
            c+=1
        else:
            i+=1
    else:
        if s[i]==s[i+1]:
            c+=1
            i+=1
        else:
            i+=1
print(c)
