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You are given a string S. Suppose a character ‘c’ occurs consecutively X times in the string. Replace these consecutive occurrences of the character ‘c’ with (X,c) in the string.
For a better understanding of the problem, check the explanation.
Input Format
A single line of input consisting of the string S.
Output Format
A single line of output consisting of the modified string.
Constraints
All the characters of S denote integers between 0 and 9.
1 ≤ | S | ≤ 104
Sample Input
1222311
Sample Output
(1, 1) (3, 2) (1, 3) (2, 1)
Explanation
First, the character 1 occurs only once. It is replaced by (1, 1). Then the character 2 occurs three times, and it is replaced by (3, 2) and so on.
Also, note the single space within each compression and between the compressions.
Solution Implementation
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# Direct Link: https://www.hackerrank.com/challenges/compress-the-string/problem
# Difficulty: Medium
# Max Score: 20
# Language: Python
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# Solution
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from itertools import groupby
for k, c in groupby(input()):
print("(%d, %d)" % (len(list(c)), int(k)), end=' ')