s/((\D)\2+)/length($1).$2/ge;

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it search for a non-number, then search if it's repeated 1 or more times, then replace it by the count of them followed by the the repeated char
Oha

PS: could be usefull to limit the number of repeated matches, and include the numbers. but in this case numbers must always have a counter: 

s/((\D)\2{1,8}|(\d)\3{0,8})/length($1).$2.$3/ge;

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this one will compare 2 or more char, or 1 or more if digit and match no more then a sequence of 9.
in this way you can decode the data with no side-effect if strange data is used: X2AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA1111 become X129A9A5A41
A repetitions are grouped up to a max of 9, numbers are counted as repetition also if not repeated.
to decode use: 
s/(\d)(.)/$2x$1/ge;

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Oha

In reply to Re: Compressing a text file using count of continous characters by oha
in thread Compressing a text file using count of continous characters by nirvana4ol

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