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Writer's pictureAbhinaw Tripathi

Write a method to perform basic string compression eg. aabcccccaaa.Should become the ouput a2b1c5a3.


Bad Solution:

public String compressBad(String str) { String mystr= ""; char last=str.charAt(0); int count = 1; for(int i=1; i< str.length();i++) { if(str.charAt(i) == last) { count++; } else { mystr +=last + "" + count; last =str.charAt(i); count =1; } } return mystr + last +count ; }

This code will not be able to handle all the case.Lets take a look at the runtime of this code.

The runtime is o(p+K to the power of 2)

p=size of the original string.

k=number of character sequences.

So if the string is aabccdeea then there are six character sequence which will be slow the concatenation operates in o(n to the power of 2).

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