Re: Manipulating Strings
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- Subject: [mg28315] Re: Manipulating Strings
- From: "Stephen P Luttrell" <luttrell at signal.dra.hmg.gb>
- Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 02:00:55 -0400 (EDT)
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StringReplace["CLKJLDiCXLklJDMXLKJdLmxLLLEIKXMDLKJcMDLKJXMeNNlB", {"LLL" ->
"L", "NN" -> "N"}]
produces the output
"CLKJLDiCXLklJDMXLKJdLmxLEIKXMDLKJcMDLKJXMeNlB"
"Brian Higgins" <bghiggins at ucdavis.edu> wrote in message
news:9ajmoi$sav at smc.vnet.net...
> 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".
>...