Overlapping ABBA

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Problem statement

Anish is given a string S and has been asked to determine if the given string S contains two non-overlapping substrings "AB" and "BA" (the substrings can go in any order).

As a friend of Anish, your task is to return “True” if the string S contains two non-overlapping substrings "AB" and "BA" (the substrings can go in any order) otherwise return “False” (without quotes).

Example:-

The string “ABBA” has two non-overlapping substrings “AB” and “BA” respectively. So “True” will be printed(without quotes).

Detailed explanation ( Input/output format, Notes, Images )

Input format :

The first line contains a single integer T representing the number of test cases.

The first line of each test case contains the string S denoting the given string to Anish.

Output format :

For each test case, print "True"  if the string S contains two non-overlapping substrings "AB" and "BA" (the substrings can go in any order) else print "False” (without quotes).

The output of each test case should be printed in a separate line.

Note:

You are not required to print anything, it has already been taken care of. Just implement the function.

Constraints :

1 <= T <= 10
1 <= |S| <= 10^4
The string S contains uppercase Latin letters only.
Time Limit = 1 sec

Sample Input 1 :

2
ABA
BACFAB

Sample Output 1 :

False
True

Explanation for Sample Output 1 :

In the first test case, there are no two non-overlapping substrings, so “False” is printed.

In the second test case, there are two non-overlapping substrings (BACFAB), so “True” is printed.

Sample Input 2 :

2
ABBA
AXBYBXA

Sample Output 2 :

True
False

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