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From: FFAAC09@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be (Nicole Delbecque & Paul Bijnens)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: repeated character editing
Message-ID: <91088.115805FFAAC09@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be>
Date: 29 Mar 91 11:57:05 GMT
References: <1991Mar28.181335.7813@cbnewsm.att.com>
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Organization: K.U.Leuven - Academic Computing Center
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In article <1991Mar28.181335.7813@cbnewsm.att.com>, cadman@cbnewsm.att.com
(jerome.schwartz) says:
>How would I do a simple edit command, vi map or sed script, to
>replace all occurrences of repeated characters in a file with one
>of each of the characters.
>
>ie:   This:   AAAAPPPPLLLLEEEE   ppppiiiieeee
>   to this:   APPLE pie

try   (on SYSV)
     tr -s '[\001-\377]' '[\001-\377]' < input  > output

giving:
     APLE pie
      ^
      |
  one letter P!   This program does not know to spell the words!
--
Polleke   (Paul Bijnens)
Linguistics dept., K. University Leuven, Belgium
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