Given an input string, write a function that returns the Run Length Encoded string for the input string.
For example, if the input string is “wwwwaaadexxxxxx”, then the function should return “w4a3d1e1x6”
a) Pick the first character from the source string.
b) Append the picked character to the destination string.
c) Count the number of subsequent occurrences of the picked character and append the count to the destination string.
d) Pick the next character and repeat steps b) c) and d) if the end of the string is NOT reached.
C++
// CPP program to implement run length encoding #include <bits/stdc++.h> using namespace std; void printRLE(string str) { int n = str.length(); for ( int i = 0; i < n; i++) { // Count occurrences of current character int count = 1; while (i < n - 1 && str[i] == str[i + 1]) { count++; i++; } // Print character and its count cout << str[i] << count; } } int main() { string str = "wwwwaaadexxxxxxywww" ; printRLE(str); return 0; } |
Java
// Java program to implement run length encoding public class RunLength_Encoding { public static void printRLE(String str) { int n = str.length(); for ( int i = 0 ; i < n; i++) { // Count occurrences of current character int count = 1 ; while (i < n - 1 && str.charAt(i) == str.charAt(i + 1 )) { count++; i++; } // Print character and its count System.out.print(str.charAt(i)); System.out.print(count); } } public static void main(String[] args) { String str = "wwwwaaadexxxxxxywww" ; printRLE(str); } } |
Python3
# Python3 program to implement # run length encoding def printRLE(st): n = len (st) i = 0 while i < n - 1 : # Count occurrences of # current character count = 1 while (i < n - 1 and st[i] = = st[i + 1 ]): count + = 1 i + = 1 i + = 1 # Print character and its count print (st[i - 1 ] + str (count), end = "") # Driver code if __name__ = = "__main__" : st = "wwwwaaadexxxxxxywww" printRLE(st) # This code is contributed by Chitranayal |
C#
// C# program to implement run length encoding using System; class GFG { public class RunLength_Encoding { public static void printRLE(String str) { int n = str.Length; for ( int i = 0; i < n; i++) { // Count occurrences of current character int count = 1; while (i < n - 1 && str[i] == str[i + 1]) { count++; i++; } // Print character and its count Console.Write(str[i]); Console.Write(count); } } public static void Main(String[] args) { String str = "wwwwaaadexxxxxxywww" ; printRLE(str); } } } // This code is contributed by shivanisinghss2110 |
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C Implementation
C
#include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> #define MAX_RLEN 50 /* Returns the Run Length Encoded string for the source string src */ char * encode( char * src) { int rLen; char count[MAX_RLEN]; int len = strlen (src); /* If all characters in the source string are different, then size of destination string would be twice of input string. For example if the src is "abcd", then dest would be "a1b1c1d1" For other inputs, size would be less than twice. */ char * dest = ( char *) malloc ( sizeof ( char ) * (len * 2 + 1)); int i, j = 0, k; /* traverse the input string one by one */ for (i = 0; i < len; i++) { /* Copy the first occurrence of the new character */ dest[j++] = src[i]; /* Count the number of occurrences of the new character */ rLen = 1; while (i + 1 < len && src[i] == src[i + 1]) { rLen++; i++; } /* Store rLen in a character array count[] */ sprintf (count, "%d" , rLen); /* Copy the count[] to destination */ for (k = 0; *(count + k); k++, j++) { dest[j] = count[k]; } } /*terminate the destination string */ dest[j] = '\0' ; return dest; } /*driver program to test above function */ int main() { char str[] = "geeksforgeeks" ; char * res = encode(str); printf ( "%s" , res); getchar (); } |
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Time Complexity: O(n)
References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run-length_encoding
Please write comments if you find the above code/algorithm incorrect, or find better ways to solve the same problem.
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