Problem 40. Reverse Run-Length Encoder

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Carl Witthoft on 17 Nov 2015

See my function "seqle" on FileExchange. It may not be as compact, but it's easy to use and both encodes and decodes.

David Verrelli on 28 Sep 2017

The problem statement would have been clearer if the principle of RLE had been explained with an encoding example first. Alternatively, it would have been useful to explicitly mention that the data in vector x is being read pairwise.

Sanzhar Askaruly on 5 Jul 2019

easy

subbarao satha on 2 Mar 2020

useful challenge

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Tommy on 27 Mar 2020

ugly but more fun than loops!

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Alfonso Nieto-Castanon on 9 May 2015

note: repelem did not exist back when this problem was created

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Diego on 30 Dec 2014

not limited to 1-9

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Adr Paw on 11 Aug 2016

This is my favourite

DJHuang on 2 Mar 2020

NICE

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Jon on 4 Dec 2013

Best score without regexp

bainhome on 8 May 2015

agree,great indeed!

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