From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2011-12-13T19:19:37+09:00
Subject: Re: "aaabbccccdadd" => [ [a, 3], [b, 2], [c, 4], [d, 1], [a, 1], [d, 2] ]

you can use the enumerator form of scan (ruby1.9):

"aaabbccccdadd".scan(/((.)\2*)/).map { |a,b| [b, a.size] }

martin

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 2:08 AM, Adit Cahya Ramadhan Adit
<matematika.adit@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm thinking to translate string to an array like this:
> "aaabbccccdadd" => [ [a, 3], [b, 2], [c, 4], [d, 1], [a, 1], [d, 2] ]
>
> this is my code:
>
> ary = []
> "aaabbccccdadd".scan(/((.)\2*)/){ |a,b| ary << [b, a.size] }
>
> ary #=> [["a", 3], ["b", 2], ["c", 4], ["d", 1], ["a", 1], ["d", 2]]
>
> But, I wonder if there are more effective or beautiful solution than
> this.
> How do you think?
>
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