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10/17/2019 - 2:36 PM

Compress a Sequence

Difficulty: Easy

Topics: seqs

Write a function which removes consecutive duplicates from a sequence.

(= (apply str (__ "Leeeeeerrroyyy")) "Leroy")

(= (__ [1 1 2 3 3 2 2 3]) '(1 2 3 2 3))

(= (__ [[1 2] [1 2] [3 4] [1 2]]) '([1 2] [3 4] [1 2]))
compress-seq.clj
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(fn compress-seq [dup-seq]
    (let [first-item (first dup-seq)
          rest-items (rest dup-seq)]
        (cond
            (nil? first-item) []
            (= first-item (first rest-items)) (compress-seq rest-items)
            :default (concat [first-item] (compress-seq rest-items)))))