From: Stephen Fickas <fickas@...>
Date: 2008-03-07T08:29:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Sequence reduction

Nice. I know, rtfm, right?

Steve

William James wrote:
> 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
>