String Compression at Yandex

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Problem Description

Given an array of characters `chars`, compress it using the following algorithm: Begin with an empty string `s`. For each group of **consecutive repeating characters** in `chars`: * If the group's length is `1`, append the character to `s`. * Otherwise, append the character followed by the gro...

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