compress: Compress sequential parts in a vector of prefixed numbers.
In mnacamura/writtils: Miscellaneous Utilities for Prose Writing

Description Usage Arguments Value Examples

Compress sequential parts in a vector of prefixed numbers.

1	compress(xs, sep = "--", level = 3)

`xs`	a vector of prefixed numbers (character strings)
`sep`	a character string to represent sequencial prefixed numbers
`level`	sequencial parts of length longer than or equal to `level` are compressed

a vector of prefixed numbers in which sequential parts are compressed (character strings)

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compress(c("a1", "a2", "a3", "a5", "a6")) #=> c("a1--3", "a5", "a6")
compress(c("a1", "a2", "a3"), sep = "-") #=> "a1-3"
compress(c("a1", "a2", "a3", "a5", "a6"), level = 2) #=> c("a1--3", "a5--6")