#include <bits/stdc++.h>
//#include <ext/pb_ds/assoc_container.hpp>
//#include <ext/pb_ds/tree_policy.hpp>
//#pragma GCC optimize("unroll-loops")
//#pragma GCC optimize("-O3")
//#pragma GCC optimize("Ofast")
//#pragma GCC optimize("fast-math")
//#pragma GCC optimize("no-stack-protector")
#define F first
#define S second
#define sz(x) int(x.size())
#define pb push_back
#define N 300001
#define M ll(1e9 + 7)
#define inf 1e9 + 1e9
using namespace std;
//using namespace __gnu_pbds;
typedef long double ld;
typedef long long ll;
typedef short int si;
typedef array <int, 2> a2;
//typedef tree <int, null_type, less_equal<int>, rb_tree_tag, tree_order_statistics_node_update> ordered_set;
int main()
{
//freopen("input.txt", "r", stdin); //freopen("output4.txt", "w", stdout);
ios_base::sync_with_stdio(0); istream::sync_with_stdio(0); cin.tie(0); cout.tie(0);
int n;
cin >> n;
int ans = 0;
int lst = -1;
for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
{
char c;
cin >> c;
if (c - 'A' != lst) ans++;
lst = c - 'A';
}
cout << ans + 1 << endl;
}
