duplicate remover

 

Description:

You have a large text file and wish to perform a simple operation on it, where all the repeating consecutive characters are removed. 

For example:  the sentence

"The green umbrella, had all the goooood attributes of a shade blocker"

becomes:

"The gren umbrela, had al the god atributes of a shade blocker"

Requirements

• This program is to use the command line prompt. That is the user must enter the input file name, and the output file name at the command line.

          For example, the output should look like

                ./a.out <input file> <output file>
               

               -Where a.out is the executable name
               - input file, is the name of the file to be parsed
               - output file, is the name of the file where the answer will be written

• Your job is to parse through an input file and search for all the same characters that appear consecutively. Once you find such a string of characters you will remove all but the very first character

Concepts

• File Input/Output
• Command Line arguments
• Functions

Additional Concepts

Updated: August 30, 2005 04:59 PM