finshed string util

StringArrayUtils.java

             if(!(excluded[newArrIndex-1]).equals(array[i])){
                 excluded[newArrIndex] = array[i];
                 newArrIndex++;
-                
+
             }    
         }
-        
+
         String[] newArr = new String[newArrIndex];
         System.arraycopy(excluded, 0, newArr, 0, newArrIndex);
-        
+
         return newArr;
 
     }
      *  occurrence concatenated as a single string in an array of Strings
      */ // TODO
     public static String[] packConsecutiveDuplicates(String[] array) {
-        String[] newArr = new String[array.length]; 
-        
+
+        StringBuilder build = new StringBuilder(array[0]);
+
+        String[] newArr = new String[array.length-count(array)]; 
+        int counter = 0; 
+        for(int i = 1; i<array.length; i++){
+            if(array[i-1].equals(array[i])){
+                build.append(array[i]);
+
+            }
+            else{
+                newArr[counter] = build.toString();
+                build.setLength(0);
+                build.append(array[i]);
+                counter++;
+            }
+        }
         
-        return null;
+        newArr[counter] = build.toString();
+        return newArr;
+    }
+
+    public static int count(String[] array){
+        int count = 0;
+        for(int i = 1; i<array.length; i++){
+            if(array[i-1].equals(array[i])) {
+
+                count++;
+            }
+        }
+
+        return count;
     }
 
 }

package.bluej

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