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Given a string of lowercase letters, count the substrings made of one letter repeated, counting substrings at different positions separately.

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Given a string S of 1 to 100 lowercase letters, count its substrings that consist of a single letter repeated one or more times. Two such substrings count separately whenever they occupy different positions, even if they read the same. Example: 'aabaaa' has 10 of them: five 'a', one 'b', three 'aa' and one 'aaa'.

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