Re: Elegant way to split into sequences of identical chars?

You may want to take a look at the node: Puzzlement in Splitsville which discusses this exact issue. Lots of answers there.

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Re^2: Elegant way to split into sequences of identical chars? by japhy (Canon) on Nov 29, 2005 at 21:50 UTC
... perhaps the best of which is Anonymous Monk's "In Perl6, this can be done using a single, 5 Unicode-character long, operator." Jeff `japhy` Pinyan, P.L., P.M., P.O.D, X.S.: Perl, regex, and `perl` hacker How can we ever be the sold short or the cheated, we who for every service have long ago been overpaid? ~~ Meister Eckhart	[reply]
Re^3: Elegant way to split into sequences of identical chars? by thundergnat (Deacon) on Nov 30, 2005 at 01:56 UTC
Notice I didn't say lot's of GOOD answers there... Instead, there's the whole gamut of answers. A couple examples of good idiomatic perl, a few obscure hackish answers, one of C written in perl and at least one of someone who seriously shouldn't have skipped his meds that morning.	[reply]