Un-de-duplicating strings

Question

Introduction

Let's observe the following string:

AABBCCDDEFFGG

You can see that every letter has been duplicated, except for the letter E. That means that the letter E has been de-duplicated. So, the only thing we need to do here is to reverse that process, which gives us the following un-de-duplicated string:

AABBCCDDEEFFGG

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Let's take a harder example:

AAAABBBCCCCDD

You can see that there is an uneven number of consecutive B's, so that means that one of the BB was de-duplicated from the original string. We only need to un-de-duplicate this letter, which gives us:

AAAABBBBCCCCDD

The challenge

Given a non-empty de-duplicated string, consisting of only alphabetic characters (either only uppercase or only lowercase), return the un-de-duplicated string. You can assume that there will always be at least one de-duplicated character in the string.

Test cases

AAABBBCCCCDDDD    -->    AAAABBBBCCCCDDDD
HEY               -->    HHEEYY
AAAAAAA           -->    AAAAAAAA
N                 -->    NN
OOQQO             -->    OOQQOO
ABBB              -->    AABBBB
ABBA              -->    AABBAA

This is code-golf, so the shortest valid submission in bytes wins!

Answer 1

MATL, 7 bytes

Y'to+Y"

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Let's take 'ABBA' as example input.

Y'   % Implicit input. Run-length decoding
     % STACK: 'ABA', [1 2 1]
t    % Duplicate top of the stack
     % STACK: 'ABA', [1 2 1], [1 2 1]
o    % Modulo 2
     % STACK: 'ABA', [1 2 1], [1 0 1]
+    % Add, element-wise
     % STACK: 'ABA', [2 2 2]
Y"   % Run-length encoding. Implicit display
     % STACK: 'AABBAA'

Answer 2

Retina, 11 bytes

(.)\1?
$1$1

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Answer 3

Haskell, 36 bytes

u(a:b:c)=a:a:u([b|a/=b]++c)
u x=x++x

Usage example: u "OOQQO" -> "OOQQOO".

If the string has at least 2 elements, take two copies of the first and append a recursive call with

• the second element an the rest if the first two elements differ or
• just the rest

If there are less than two elements (one or zero), take two copies of the list.

Answer 4

Perl, 16 bytes

15 bytes of code + -p flag.

s/(.)\1?/$1$1/g

To run it:

perl -pe 's/(.)\1?/$1$1/g' <<< 'HEY'

Answer 5

Brachylog, 17 bytes

@b:{~b#=.l#e,|}ac

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Explanation

Example input: "ABBB"

@b                  Blocks: Split into ["A", "BBB"]
  :{          }a    Apply the predicate below to each element of the list: ["AA", "BBBB"]
                c   Concatenate: "AABBBB"

    ~b#=.             Output is the input with an additional element at the beginning, and
                        all elements of the output are the same (e.g. append a leading "B")
        .l#e,         The length of the Output is an even number
             |        Or: Input = Output (i.e. do nothing)

Answer 6

Ruby, 21 bytes

20 bytes plus the -p flag.

gsub(/(.)\1?/){$1*2}

Answer 7

JavaScript (ES6), 37 30 bytes

Saved 7 bytes by using the much more efficient '$1$1' like [other] [answers] did

s=>s.replace(/(.)\1?/g,'$1$1')

Test cases

let f =

s=>s.replace(/(.)\1?/g,'$1$1')

console.log(f("AAABBBCCCCDDDD"));   //  -->  AAAABBBBCCCCDDDD
console.log(f("HEY"));              //  -->  HHEEYY
console.log(f("AAAAAAA"));          //  -->  AAAAAAAA
console.log(f("N"));                //  -->  NN
console.log(f("OOQQO"));            //  -->  OOQQOO
console.log(f("ABBB"));             //  -->  AABBBB
console.log(f("ABBA"));             //  -->  AABBAA

Answer 8

Mathematica, 41 bytes

s=StringReplace;s[s[#,a_~~a_->a],b_->b~~b]&

Unnamed function that inputs a string and outputs a string. Completely deduplicate then completely undeduplicate. Not real short, but I couldn't do better for now.

Answer 9

Befunge 98, 24 bytes

#@~#;:::#@,~-:!j;$,;-\,;

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$ can be easily replaced with -, and the 2nd @ with ;.

I think this can be golfed further due to the - at the beginning of both -, (or $, above) and -\,.

How?

Stack notation:  bottom [A, B, C, D] top

#@~     Pushes the first character onto the stack (C henceforth) and ends if EOF
#;      No-op to be used later
:::     Now stack is [C, C, C, C]

#@,~    Prints C, and if EOF is next (odd consecutive Cs), prints again and ends
        Lets call the next character D

-       Now stack is [C, C, C-D]
:!j;    If C == D, go to "$," Else, go to "-\,"

===(C == D)===

$,      C == D (i.e. a pair of Cs) so we discard top and print C (Stack is now [C])
;-\,;   Skipped, IP wraps, and loop starts again

===(C != D)===

-       Stack is [C, C-(C-D)]  By expanding: [C, C - C + D] or just [C, D]
\,      Prints C (Stack is now [D])

;#@~#;  This is skipped, because we already read the first character of a set of Ds,
        and this algorithm works by checking the odd character in a set of
        consecutive similar characters. We already read D, so we don't
        need to read another character.

Answer 10

Java 7, 58 bytes

String c(String s){return s.replaceAll("(.)\\1?","$1$1");}

Ungolfed:

String c(String s){
  return s.replaceAll("(.)\\1?", "$1$1");
}

Test code:

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class M{
  static String c(String s){return s.replaceAll("(.)\\1?","$1$1");}

  public static void main(String[] a){
    System.out.println(c("AABBCCDDEFFGG"));
    System.out.println(c("AAAABBBCCCCDD"));
    System.out.println(c("AAABBBCCCCDDDD"));
    System.out.println(c("HEY"));
    System.out.println(c("AAAAAAA"));
    System.out.println(c("N"));
    System.out.println(c("OOQQO"));
    System.out.println(c("ABBB"));
    System.out.println(c("ABBA"));
  }
}

Output:

AABBCCDDEEFFGG
AAAABBBBCCCCDD
AAAABBBBCCCCDDDD
HHEEYY
AAAAAAAA
NN
OOQQOO
AABBBB
AABBAA

Answer 11

PHP, 65 bytes, no regex

while(""<$c=($s=$argv[1])[$i])if($c!=$s[++$i]||!$k=!$k)echo$c.$c;

takes input from command line argument. Run with -r.

regex? In PHP, the regex used by most answers duplicates every character. would be 44 bytes:

<?=preg_replace("#(.)\1?#","$1$1",$argv[1]);

Answer 12

Brain-Flak 69 Bytes

Includes +3 for -c

{((({}<>))<>[({})]<(())>){((<{}{}>))}{}{(<{}{}>)}{}}<>{({}<>)<>}<>

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Explanation:

Part 1:
{((({}<>))<>[({})]<(())>){((<{}{}>))}{}{(<{}{}>)}{}}<>

{                                                  }   # loop through all letters
 (   {}     [ {} ]<(())>){((<{}{}>))}{}                # equals from the wiki   
                                                       # but first:
  ((  <>))<>                                           # push the top letter on the other 
                                                       # stack twice  
             (  )                                      # push the second letter back on
                                       {        }      # if they were equal:
                                        (<    >)       # push a 0 to exit this loop
                                          {}{}         # after popping the 1 from the 
                                                       # comparison and the next letter
                                                       # (the duplicate)
                                                 {}    # pop the extra 0
                                                    <> # switch stacks

Part 2 (at this point, everything is duplicated in reverse order):
{({}<>)<>}<>

{        }   # for every letter:
 ({}<>)      # move the top letter to the other stack
       <>    # and switch back
          <> # Finally switch stacks and implicitly print

Answer 13

brainfuck, 22 bytes

,
[
  [>->+<<-]
  >[>..<<]
  >,
]

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Prints the current character twice, unless it's equal to a character that was just printed twice.

Answer 14

Jelly, 9 bytes

Œgs€2ṁ€€2

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Answer 15

V 10 bytes

ͨ.©±½/±±

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Just a find and replace regex like all of the rest in the thread. The only difference is that I can replace anything that would require a \ in front of it with the character with the same ascii value, but the high bit set. (So (, 00101000 becomes ¨, 10101000)

Answer 16

Perl 6, 17 bytes

s:g/(.)$0?/$0$0/

with -p command-line switch

Example:

$ perl6 -pe 's:g/(.)$0?/$0$0/' <<< 'AAABBBCCCCDDDD
> HEY
> AAAAAAA
> N
> OOQQO
> ABBB
> ABBA'
AAAABBBBCCCCDDDD
HHEEYY
AAAAAAAA
NN
OOQQOO
AABBBB
AABBAA

Answer 17

Racket 261 bytes

(let((l(string->list s))(r reverse)(c cons)(e even?)(t rest)(i first))(let p((l(t l))(ol(c(i l)'())))
(cond[(empty? l)(list->string(if(e(length ol))(r ol)(r(c(i ol)ol))))][(or(equal?(i ol)(i l))(e(length ol)))
(p(t l)(c(i l)ol))][(p(t l)(c(i l)(c(i ol)ol)))])))

Ungolfed:

(define (f s)
  (let ((l (string->list s)))
    (let loop ((l (rest l))
               (ol (cons (first l) '())))
      (cond
        [(empty? l)
         (list->string(if (even? (length ol))
                          (reverse ol)
                          (reverse (cons (first ol) ol))))]
        [(or (equal? (first ol) (first l)) 
             (even? (length ol)))
         (loop (rest l) (cons (first l) ol))]
        [else
         (loop (rest l) (cons (first l) (cons (first ol) ol)))] ))))

Testing:

(f "ABBBCDDEFFGGG")

Output:

"AABBBBCCDDEEFFGGGG"

Answer 18

05AB1E, 10 bytes

.¡vy¬ygÉ×J

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Explanation

.¡           # split string into groups of the same char
  v          # for each group
   y         # push the group
    ¬        # push the char the group consists of
     yg      # push the length of the group
       É     # check if the length of the group is odd
        ×    # repeat the char is-odd times (0 or 1)
         J   # join to string

Answer 19

Python3, 102 94 bytes

from collections import*
lambda s:"".join(c*(s.count(c)+1&-2)for c in OrderedDict.fromkeys(s))

Thanks to xnor for saving 8 bytes! -> bithack.

Answer 20

R, 81 bytes

r=rle(el(strsplit(scan(,""),"")));cat(do.call("rep",list(r$v,r$l+r$l%%2)),sep="")

Reads a string from stdin, splin into vector of characters and perform run-length encoding (rle). Subsequently repeat the each values from the rle, the sum of the lengths and the lengths mod 2.

If we can read input separated by space (implicitly as a vector/array of characters) then we can skip the splitting part and the program reduces to 64 bytes:

r=rle(scan(,""));cat(do.call("rep",list(r$v,r$l+r$l%%2)),sep="")

Answer 21

><> (Fish) 39 bytes

0v ;oo:~/:@@:@=?!voo
 >i:1+?!\|o !:  !<

Pretty sure this can be golfed a lot using a different technique.

It takes an input and compares against the current stack item, if it's different it'll print the first stack item twice, if the same it prints them both.

The stack when empty gets supplied with a 0 which prints nothing so can be appended on whenever.

Answer 22

Pyth, 15 bytes

Vrz8p*+hN%hN2eN

Verify all test cases here.

Thanks to Luis Mendo for the methodology.

Explanation

Vrz8p*+hN%hN2eN    z autoinitializes to the input
 rz8               run-length encode the input, returned as list of tuples (A -> [[1,"A"]])
V                  for every element N in this list
      +hN          add the head element of N (the number in the tuple)
         %hN2      to the head element of N mod 2
     *       eN    repeat the tail element of N that many times (the letter in the tuple)
    p              print repeated character without trailing newline

As is often the case, I feel like this could be shorter. I think there should be a better way to extract elements from the list than what I am using here.

Answer 23

PowerShell, 28 bytes

$args-replace'(.)\1?','$1$1'

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Port of the Retina answer. The only points of note are we've got $args instead of the usual $args[0] (since the -replace will iterate over each item in the input array, we can golf off the index), and the '$1$1' needs to be single quotes so they're replaced with the regex variables rather than being treated as PowerShell variables (which would happen if they were double-quote).

Answer 24

C, 67 bytes

i;f(char*s,char*d){i=*s++;*d++=i;*d++=i;*s?f(i-*s?s:++s,d):(*d=0);}

Call with:

int main()
{
    char *in="AAABBBCCCCDDDD";
    char out[128];
    f(in,out);
    puts(out);
}