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Created February 23, 2013 02:41
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Implement a method to perform basic string compression using the counts of repeated characters. For example, the string aabcccccaaa would become a2b1c5a3. If the "compressed" string would not become smaller than the original string, your method should return the original string.
#include "stdafx.h"
#include <string>
#include <iostream>
#include <sstream>
std::string Compress(std::string);
int main()
{
using namespace std;
string originstr;
cin>>originstr;
cout<<Compress(originstr)<<endl;
return 0;
}
std::string Compress(std::string originstr)
{
using namespace std;
if(originstr.size()==0)
{
return originstr;
}
stringstream res;
char currentchar=originstr[0];
int currentcount=1;
for(int i=1,size=originstr.size();i<size;i++)
{
if(originstr[i]==currentchar)
{
currentcount++;
}
else
{
res<<currentchar<<currentcount;
currentchar=originstr[i];
currentcount=1;
}
}
res<<currentchar<<currentcount;
string result;
res>>result;
if(result.size()<originstr.size())
{
return result;
}
else
{
return originstr;
}
}
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