I'm trying to create a recursive function which removes the consecutive duplicate characters from a string. It works fine except the first few characters. For example if my input is MMMMMuuuuuOOOOOKKKKLLLEE OOOOLLL
or something like this, output is MMuOKLE OL
. As you can see except for the first two M's it works fine. How can I make this work for the first part too?
Here is my code:
#include <stdio.h>
char* remove_duplicates (char* str){
if(*(str+1)!='\0'){
if(*str==*(str+1)){
*(str+1)=*(str+2);
remove_duplicates(str+1);
}
remove_duplicates(str+1);
}
return str;
}
int main()
{
char sample[] = "MMMMMuuuuuOOOOOKKKKLLLEE OOOOLLL";
printf("OLD: |%s|\n", sample);
printf("NEW: |%s|\n", remove_duplicates(sample));
return 0;
}