progress on last method

src/main/java/com/zipcodewilmington/StringArrayUtils.java

@@ -154,6 +154,7 @@ counter++;
     public static String[] removeConsecutiveDuplicates(String[] array) {
         String[] tempArr = new String[array.length];
         int counter = 0;
+        int decrement = 0;
         for (int i=0; i<array.length-1; i++){
             if (array[i].equals(array[i+1])){
                 continue;
@@ -162,9 +163,15 @@ counter++;
             }
            // int decrement = tempArr.indexOf(null);
         }
-
-        System.out.print(tempArr);
-return array;
+        for (int i=0; i<tempArr.length; i++){
+            if (tempArr[i] == null)
+            { decrement = i;
+            break;}
+        }
+        String[] resultArr= Arrays.copyOf(tempArr, decrement+1);
+        resultArr[resultArr.length-1] = array[array.length-1];
+        System.out.print(resultArr);
+return resultArr;
     }
 
     /**
@@ -172,7 +179,34 @@ return array;
      * @return array of Strings with each consecutive duplicate occurrence concatenated as a single string in an array of Strings
      */ // TODO
     public static String[] packConsecutiveDuplicates(String[] array) {
-        return null;
+
+        String[] tempArr = new String[array.length];
+        String tempString = "";
+        int counter = 0;
+        int decrement = 0;
+        for (int i=0; i<array.length-1; i++){
+            if (array[i].equals(array[i+1])){
+                tempString = array[i] + array[i];
+                continue;
+            } else if (array[i].equals(array[i+1])){
+                tempArr[counter++] = tempString;
+                continue;
+            }
+            else{
+                tempArr[counter++]=array[i];
+            }
+
+        }
+        for (int i=0; i<tempArr.length; i++){
+            if (tempArr[i] == null)
+            { decrement = i;
+                break;}
+        }
+        String[] resultArr= Arrays.copyOf(tempArr, decrement+1);
+        resultArr[resultArr.length-1] = array[array.length-1];
+        System.out.print(resultArr);
+        return resultArr;
+
     }