Hi Monks!
I have a string of characters that I want to format into a more "compact" size. I will use it as input for a string.
The initial format is:
iiMMMMMMMMMMoooooooooooooooooooooooMMMMMMMMMMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
+iiiiiMMMMMMMMMMMMMooooooooooooooooooooo

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and I want to transform it to:
i3-12o36-45i76-88o

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My workaround through it would be first to get the substring of the string to see what the initial character is and then somehow use maybe index function to get the limits of the MMMMM parts (there can be more than one, it is not always 2). The only info we have is that the string may start with i or o and that i alternates to o, when there exist 'MMMM' parts between them.
Any help?

In reply to How to format such a string? by Anonymous Monk

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