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September 26, 2022 16:14
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Rust Run-Length Encoding
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fn main() { | |
println!("Original text:\t"); | |
let mut line = String::new(); | |
std::io::stdin().read_line(&mut line).unwrap(); | |
line = line.trim().to_string(); | |
let mut last_character = line.chars().next().unwrap(); | |
let mut character_count = 0; | |
let mut final_string = String::new(); | |
for character in line.chars() { | |
if character == last_character { | |
character_count += 1; | |
} else { | |
final_string.push_str(format!("{}{}", last_character, character_count).as_str()); | |
character_count = 1; | |
} | |
last_character = character; | |
} | |
final_string.push_str(format!("{}{}", last_character, character_count).as_str()); | |
println!("{}", final_string); | |
} |
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