From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2008-03-07T07:39:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Sequence reduction

On Mar 6, 1:13 pm, James Gray, Junior <ja...@grayproductions.net>
wrote:
> 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"

Not good.

irb(main):002:0> "0011122234667889".squeeze
=> "012346789"

>
> James Gray, Junior