Score of a String

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You are given a string s. The score of a string is defined as the sum of the absolute difference between the ASCII values of adjacent characters.

Return the score of s.

Example 1:

Input: s = "code"

Output: 24

Explanation: The ASCII values of the characters in the given string are: 'c' = 99, 'o' = 111, 'd' = 100, and 'e' = 101. The score of s will be: |111 - 99| + |100 - 111| + |101 - 100|.

Example 2:

Input: s = "neetcode"

Output: 65

Constraints:

  • 2 <= s.length <= 100
  • s is made up of lowercase English letters.


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