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I've never done Ruby, but what I don't like about that second solution is how much logic it puts into formatting directives in a string literal:

"#{x}#{input.split('').count(x)}"

Just because Ruby apparently allows you to do that much in a formatting directive doesn't mean you should.

Assuming this is a variant of RLE-style compression, the implementation is also wrong, if the input is `aabbcccddaa`, it will return "a4b2c3d2" instead of "a2b2cc3d2a2".

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