Function RLEdecode

compression/rlecoding.go:37–47

RLEdecode takes a run-length encoded string and returns the original string

(data string)

// RLEdecode takes a run-length encoded string and returns the original string
func RLEdecode(data string) string {
	var result string
	regex := regexp.MustCompile(`(\d+)(\w)`)

	for _, match := range regex.FindAllStringSubmatch(data, -1) {
		num, _ := strconv.Atoi(match[1])
		result += strings.Repeat(match[2], num)
	}

	return result
}

// RLEncodebytes takes a byte slice and returns its run-length encoding as a byte slice
func RLEncodebytes(data []byte) []byte {