From: David Rio <driodeiros@...>
Date: 2009-06-21T20:37:50+09:00
Subject: Re: replacing repetition of characters in string

On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 10:18 PM, Morris Keesan<mkeesan@gmail.com> wrote:
> This problem is a little under-specified,

Yes, my bad.

> and it would be worth asking
> exactly what your friend is trying to accomplish.
> As a quick question, what should happen if the input contains THREE of the
> same character?  Should "aaa" become
> aaa
> *aa*a
> *aaa*
> *a*a*a*
> or something else?

*aa*a, which is what Sebastian's code does.

-drd