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- From: witr@rwwa.COM (Robert Withrow)
- Subject: Re: programming challenge
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.194603.6840@rwwa.COM>
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- Organization: R.W. Withrow Associates
- References: <1992Dec12.100131.11703@zooid.guild.org>
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- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 19:46:03 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec12.100131.11703@zooid.guild.org>,
- Mike Stramba <stramba@zooid.guild.org> writes:
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- | If I have the string :
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- | Exxxxppppppprrrrrrreeeeesssssiiiiiiiiioooooonnnnnnnnnsssssssss
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- | and I want to kill the duplicated letters and end up with:
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- | Expressions
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- | Lets' see some of your elegant solutions !
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- And, of course, no solution will be considered elegant unless it produces
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- ``Goofy'' with the input ``Goooooofffffyyyy''.
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