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Re: Manipulating Strings

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  • Subject: [mg28289] Re: [mg28248] Manipulating Strings
  • From: Matt.Johnson at autolivasp.com
  • Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 03:44:48 -0400 (EDT)
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Brian-

In[31]:=
str = "aaabccd55kleeeee"
Out[31]=
"aaabccd55kleeeee"
In[32]:=
squash2[string_String] :=
  StringJoin[Characters[string] //. {{h___, x_, x_, t___} -> {h, x, t}}]
In[33]:=
repeatedCharReplace[str]
Out[33]=
"abcd5kle"

-matt






bghiggins at ucdavis.edu (Brian Higgins) on 04/05/2001 11:52:56 PM

cc:
Subject: [mg28289]  [mg28248] Manipulating Strings



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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