Hi,

A mathematical program I wrote in C++ multiplies things called B and C together then finds some properties of the new thing.

The output gives the thing, for example
BCBCBCBCBCCCB
then a list of porperties.

I am now writing a perl script to process this output.

I want to replace
BCBCBCBCBCCCB
by
(BC)^{5}CCB
which is obviously a lot nicer.

However, I some of the 'words' start with C and the number of (BC)s ranges from 0 to some very large numbers.

How do I achieve this? I tried a few ideas but none of them worked and now I really don't have a clue what to do!

Thanks for reading,
Richard.
richard@sigma.ndo.co.uk

Edit by tye to preserve formatting

In reply to Converting BCBCBCBCBCCCB to (BC)^{5}CCB by fishfork

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