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Code that takes a string and recognizes the number of consecutive letters

To do my job, I need a code that takes a word from the user, then recognizes the number of consecutive letters and outputs it in such a way that it prints the letter and the number of times it is repeated.

Example
input:
hhhttrew
output:
h3t2rew

input:
uuuuuuhhhaaajqqq
output:
u6h3a3jq3

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I know it is very incomplete (:

String text = sc.nextLine();
            int len = text.length();

            int repeat = 0;

            char[] chars = new char[len];

            // To convert string to char
            for (int h = 0; h < len; h++)
            {
                chars[h] = text.charAt(h);
            }

            String finaly = "";

            for (char ignored : chars)
            {
                for (int j = 0 ; j <len ; j++ )
                {
                    if (chars[j] == chars[j+1])
                    {
                        finaly = String.valueOf(chars[j]);

                        repeat++;

                        finaly = String.valueOf(repeat);
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        j++;
                    }
                }
            }
            System.out.println(finaly);

>Solution :

Here is one way. You only need a single loop. The inner loop does the work. The outer loop simply supplies test cases.

  • assign the first character
  • and set count to 1 for that character
  • then iterate until adjacent characters are different
  • append count if > 1 and append the different character
  • set count to 0 for next run.
String[] data = { "uuuuuuhhhaaajqqq", 
        "hhhttrew","abbcccddddeeeeeffffffggggggg" };

for (String s : data) {
    String result = "" + s.charAt(0);
    int count = 1;
    for (int i = 1; i < s.length(); i++) {
        if (s.charAt(i - 1) != s.charAt(i)) {
            result += count <= 1 ? "" : count;
            result += s.charAt(i);
            count = 0;
        }
        count++;
        if (i == s.length() - 1) {
            result += count <= 1 ? "" : count;
        }
    }
    System.out.printf("%-15s <-- %s%n", result, s);
}

prints

u6h3a3jq3       <-- uuuuuuhhhaaajqqq
h3t2rew         <-- hhhttrew
ab2c3d4e5f6g7   <-- abbcccddddeeeeeffffffggggggg

            
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