Java compressing Strings

Question

I need to create a method that receives a String and also returns a String.

Ex input: AAABBBBCC

Ex output: 3A4B2C

Well, this is quite embarrassing a

Answer 1

The answers which used Map will not work for cases like aabbbccddabc as in that case the output should be a2b3c2d2a1b1c1.

In that case this implementation can be used :

private String compressString(String input) {
        String output = "";
        char[] arr = input.toCharArray();
        Map myMap = new LinkedHashMap<>();
        for (int i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) {
            if (i > 0 && arr[i] != arr[i - 1]) {
                output = output + arr[i - 1] + myMap.get(arr[i - 1]);
                myMap.put(arr[i - 1], 0);
            }
            if (myMap.containsKey(arr[i])) {
                myMap.put(arr[i], myMap.get(arr[i]) + 1);
            } else {
                myMap.put(arr[i], 1);
            }
        }

        for (Character c : myMap.keySet()) {
            if (myMap.get(c) != 0) {
                output = output + c + myMap.get(c);
            }
        }

        return output;
    }