Compress String with Run Length Encoding in Java

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Compress String with Run Length Encoding in Java

In this Java example, we're gonna know how to compress String in Java with Run Length Encoding (RLE) method.

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Run Length Encoding

• RLE is a very simple form of data compression.
• It produces sequences in which the same data values occurs in data elements are stored as a single data value and a counter. For example, AAABB => 3A2B.
• RLE is suitable to use for:
• palette-based bitmap images such as computer icons or
• black points collection on a solid white background for example:

Implementation

Encoding is very simple. For decoding, we use Regular Expression - Regex.

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Compress String with Run Length Encoding in Java