Run-length encoding

You are encouraged to solve this task according to the task description, using any language you may know.


Task

Given a string containing uppercase characters (A-Z), compress repeated 'runs' of the same character by storing the length of that run, and provide a function to reverse the compression.

The output can be anything, as long as you can recreate the input with it.



Example

 Input: WWWWWWWWWWWWBWWWWWWWWWWWWBBBWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWBWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
 Output: 12W1B12W3B24W1B14W


Note: the encoding step in the above example is the same as a step of the Look-and-say sequence.




using IterTools
 
encode(str::String) = collect((length(g), first(g)) for g in groupby(first, str))
decode(cod::Vector) = join(repeat("$l", n) for (n, l) in cod)
 
for original in ["aaaaahhhhhhmmmmmmmuiiiiiiiaaaaaa", "WWWWWWWWWWWWBWWWWWWWWWWWWBBBWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWBWWWWWWWWWWWWWW"]
    encoded = encode(original)
    decoded = decode(encoded)
    println("Original: $original\n -> encoded: $encoded\n -> decoded: $decoded")
end