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Program to uncompress a string ie a2b3c4 to aabbbcccc

Below is the program to uncompress a string

#include<stdio.h>
#include<conio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
int main()
{
char str[100]="a2b3c4d8u7";
for(int i=0;str[i]!='\0';i++)
{
if(i%2!=0)
{
for(int j=0;j<atoi(&str[i]);j++)
{
printf("%c",str[i-1]);
}
}
}
getch();
}

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  1. Anonymous2 January 2014 at 23:37

    what is the code for aaaafff to a4f3?

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  2. Anonymous8 July 2014 at 06:53

    instead of checking if its an odd position... start running j loop from i+1.

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