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Repeated letters in ggg

Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2021 3:09 pm
by WarpedWartWars
Regular expressions have a way to do this, for example (whatever*) matches "whateverwhateverwhatever", "whatever", etc., but not "whatevre", "waeehtvr", "qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm", etc. Is there a way to do this in ggg?

Re: Repeated letters in ggg

Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2021 11:13 pm
by zompist
As stated, sure:

S=W
W=W W|whatever

I'm guessing you mean something more complicated than this, but I'm not sure what!

Re: Repeated letters in ggg

Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2021 7:41 pm
by WarpedWartWars
What I specifically want it for is an extended version of the Math Expressions example. I want it to turn "gggggggg" into "g8", "ff" into "f2" etc. Not generating them, but rather collapsing them.