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From: cadman@cbnewsm.att.com (jerome.schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: repeated character editing
Summary: UPDATE to spelling
Keywords: vi sed
Message-ID: <1991Mar29.145724.5569@cbnewsm.att.com>
Date: 29 Mar 91 14:57:24 GMT
References: <1991Mar28.181335.7813@cbnewsm.att.com>
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <1991Mar28.181335.7813@cbnewsm.att.com>, cadman@cbnewsm.att.com (jerome.schwartz) writes:
> 
> 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
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Jerry

The example should have been:

AAAAPPPPPPPPLLLLEEEE ppppiiiieeee

With 2 sets of 4 P's.

Still with no success,

Jerry
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