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String Compression

Understand how to apply the two pointers technique to compress a string in-place by grouping consecutive repeating characters. Learn to modify the input array directly using constant extra space and handle length encoding accurately to solve this frequent coding interview problem efficiently.

Statement

Given an array of characters, chars, compress it in place according to the following rules:

  1. Start with an empty string s.

  2. For each group of consecutive repeating characters in chars:

    1. If the group length is 11 ...