Removing long strands of letters that are the same

[Diablicolic]

I have this problem with a string, you see it always seems to come out like something like this:

 

hhheeellllloooooo

 

And I was wondering if there was a way to like delete the extras so that it would come out looking like this:

 

helo

 

:)

[Volte]

You could do this:

for (int i = 0; i <= 26; i++) {
 String lc = Convert.ToChar(i + 97).ToString();
 String uc = Convert.ToChar(i + 65).ToString();

 // Replace twice so that triplets are reduced to 1:
 // 1) aaaaaa -> aaaa
 // 2) aaaa -> a
 myText = myText.Replace(lc + lc, lc).Replace(lc + lc, lc);
 myText = myText.Replace(uc + uc, uc).Replace(uc + uc, uc);
}

A bit hackish I suppose, but it should work (I haven't tested it though).

[PlausiblyDamp]

Where is the string coming from, and would you have any control over the source?