From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2008-03-07T04:13:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Sequence reduction

On Mar 6, 2008, at 1:01 PM, Stephen Fickas wrote:

> I'd like to take a string like that below
>
> "0011122234667889"
>
> and reduce to
>
> "012346789"

How about this?

 >> "0011122234667889".split("").uniq.join
=> "012346789"

James Edward Gray II