How do you remove repeated characters in a string

Question

I have a website which allows users to comment on photos. Of course, users leave comments like:

\'OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

Answer 1

Regex would be overkill. Try this:

public static string RemoveRepeatedChars(String input, int maxRepeat)
    {
        if(input.Length==0)return input;

        StringBuilder b = new StringBuilder;
        Char[] chars = input.ToCharArray();
        Char lastChar = chars[0];
        int repeat = 0;
        for(int i=1;i