in reply to Re^2: Supress similar chars in the string
in thread Supress similar chars in the string
s/(.)\1\1\K\1*//g;
Shouldn't \1* in regex above be \1+ for reason similar to that discussed in Re^3: Supress similar chars in the string: useless replacement of empty string with empty string? (Or is regex engine smart enough to avoid this null operation?)
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