Ola Route Code Compression
Ola Route Code Compression
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Meera uses Ola for daily commute from Pune to Mumbai. The route is encoded with city codes. To optimize storage, consecutive identical codes should be compressed into a count-code format (e.g., 'MMM' becomes '3M').
Approach
Given a route string with city codes, compress consecutive identical characters into count+character format.
Input
MMMDDBBMM
Output
3M2D2B2M
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