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Manipulating Strings

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  • Subject: [mg28248] Manipulating Strings
  • From: bghiggins at ucdavis.edu (Brian Higgins)
  • Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 01:52:56 -0400 (EDT)
  • Organization: The Math Forum
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Dear Math group,

I have a string with runs of repeated characters and  want to  replace
sequences of repeated characters with a single character. For example
consider the string

"CLKJLDiCXLklJDMXLKJdLmxLLLEIKXMDLKJcMDLKJXMeNNlB"
Thus I want a function that will take the groups "LLL" and "NN" in the
above string and replace them with "L" and "N". 

Now I have been able to devise such a function but it seems pretty
clunky, and I was wondering if anyone had a better idea tha made use
of StringMatchQ to do the same task. Here is my method

squash[str_String] := Module[{repeatCharList, repeatPattern,
repeatChar},
    repeatCharList = 
      Select[Split[Characters[proteinString2]], Length[#] > 1 &];
    repeatPattern = Apply[StringJoin, repeatCharList, 1];
    repeatChar = Map[First, repeatCharList];
    StringReplace[str, Thread[repeatPattern -> repeatChar]]]

Thanks much,

Brian


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