Splitting string into groups

Question

I\'m trying to \'group\' a string into segments, I guess this example would explain it more succintly

scala> val str: String = \"aaaabbcddeeeeeeffg\"
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Answer 1

You could use some helper functions like this:

val str = "aaaabbcffffddeeeeefff"

def zame(chars:List[Char]) = chars.partition(_==chars.head)

def q(chars:List[Char]):List[List[Char]] = chars match {
    case Nil => Nil
    case rest =>
        val (thesame,others) = zame(rest)
        thesame :: q(others)
}

q(str.toList) map (_.mkString)

This should do the trick, right? No doubt it can be cleaned up into one-liners even further