Hello,

I'm trying to convert doubles into simple...

"bb"->"b"
"aaaaabbbbeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrr rrrrrrrrrrrtt"->"abert"
etc...

Is there a way to do it?

Thanks :-)

Answered under your prior thread.

"Boubahha" <fsdf (AT) fdsfdfds (DOT) com> wrote

Function RemoveConsecDuplicate ( string ; start )
------------------------------------------
If(
Length( string );
If(
Lower( Right( start; 1 ) ) = Lower( Left( string; 1 ) );
RemoveConsecDuplicate( Middle( string; 2; Length( string ) );
start );
RemoveConsecDuplicate( Middle( string; 2; Length( string ) ); start &
Left( string; 1 ) )
);
start
)
------------------------------------------

"Bill Marriott" <wjm (AT) wjm (DOT) org> a écrit dans le message de news:
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Too bad that puts a "1" in front of everything.

"Boubahha" <fsdf (AT) fdsfdfds (DOT) com> wrote

Right, start should be empty. Not bad... makes it a lot easier to use two
parameters.

Did you come up with that yourself?

Bill

"Bill Marriott" <wjm (AT) wjm (DOT) org> wrote

http://www.fmsource.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=28385

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In addition to the solutions already proposed, you might also benefit from
looking into regular expressions. This is especially true if you anticipate
performing a variety of text transformations similar to the one you have
described.

An example of how you would collapse repeated characters using our regular
expression plug-in (yooMatch) is:

yooMatch_replace( "aaabberrrrtt"; "(.)\1+"; "\1"; "g" )

This function call would return "abert" as desired.

If your needs are fairly simple and limited to collapsing repeated
characters, then clearly you are well-served by using built-in functionality
as already discussed. If your needs are somewhat broader, I believe you will
find that regular expressions constitute an extremely useful tool for which
there is no reasonable substitute in many situations.

Darren
yooPlugs - http://www.yooplugs.com




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"Boubahha" <fsdf (AT) fdsfdfds (DOT) com> wrote:

Thanks for the tip but http://www.yooplugs.com/yooMatch/yooMatch-1.0.zip
doesn't work :-(

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Boubahha,

What do you mean, "it doesn't work?"

The link provided certainly does work. The extension works. The sample
calculation Darren provided works.

In fact, the solution I put together for you correctly distills duplicates
and accurately determines the Soundex code for even the most perverse input
(though did find a more elegant recursive function alternative).

I am wondering if there is *anything* that will make you happy.

Bill


"Boubahha" <fsdf (AT) fdsfdfds (DOT) com> wrote

"Bill Marriott" <wjm (AT) wjm (DOT) org> a écrit dans le message de news:
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Bill Marriott,

I'm meaning that i can't reach this url. My english is very poor. Thank you
for your invaluable assistance.

You are totally right.

Boubahha