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[Easy] String Compression
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JavaScript (~~Deno~~Bun):
bun easy.js aaabbhhhh33aaa
Golf attempt using RegExp to match homogenous substrings.
Original version
Slightly optimised by removing the frivolous conversion to string. I also made a somewhat silly opitmisation of using
Bun.argv
instead ofDeno.args
to save a character.