Problem 34 of 50

Easy

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You have a row of boxes, some with cookies and some empty. After a certain number of days, you will eat one cookie from a box each day. We want to find out how many boxes will be empty after those days are over.

Key Concepts
Strings Loops Counting Conditionals
Examples

Input: 5 2 .@@.@

Output: 4

Input: 3 3 @@@

Output: 3

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  • Focus on understanding the logic, not memorizing syntax
  • Use print statements to debug your code
  • Don't worry about input parsing - the function handles that for you
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