Compression Algorithm

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Mr. X has come up with a new string compression algorithm. Consider a string of length N which contains up to K distinct characters. The compression algorithm works as follows: Replace each maximal contiguous substring containing only one distinct character (repeated an arbitrary number of times) and replace it by 2 values: the character and the length of the substring. For example, the string "a

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