Alternating Groups I

There is a circle of red and blue tiles. You are given an array of integers colors. The color of tile i is represented by colors[i]:

• colors[i] == 0 means that tile i is red.
• colors[i] == 1 means that tile i is blue.

Every 3 contiguous tiles in the circle with alternating colors (the middle tile has a different color from its left and right tiles) is called an alternating group.

Return the number of alternating groups.

Note that since colors represents a circle, the first and the last tiles are considered to be next to each other.

 

Example 1:

Example 2:

 

Constraints:

• 3 <= colors.length <= 100
• 0 <= colors[i] <= 1

Example Testcases:

[1,1,1]
[0,1,0,0,1]