Longest Repeating Subsequence of a Single Digit

Question

Challenge:

Given a positive integer, output the longest single-digit subsequence that occurs at least twice, AND has boundaries of another digit (or the start/end of the integer).

An example:

Input: 7888885466662716666
The longest subsequence of a single digit would be 88888 (7[88888]5466662716666) with a length of 5. However, this subsequence only occurs once in the integer.
Instead, the result for input 7888885466662716666 should be 6666 (78888854[6666]271[6666]), since it occurs (at least) twice.

Challenge rules:

• Length of the subsequences takes priority over the amount of times it occurs. (I.e. with input 8888858888866656665666, we output 88888 ([88888]5[88888]66656665666; length 5, occurs twice), and not 666 (88888588888[666]5[666]5[666]; length 3, occurs thrice).
• If the length of multiple subsequences are equal, we output the one with the largest occurrence-count. I.e. with input 3331113331119111, we output 111 (333[111]333[111]9[111]; length 3, occurs thrice), and not 333 ([333]111[333]1119111; length 3 as well, but occurs twice)
• If the occurrence-count and length of multiple subsequences are equal, you can output either of them, or all (in any order). I.e. with input 777333777333, the possible outputs are: 777; 333; [777, 333]; or [333, 777].
• The subsequence must have boundaries of other digits (or the start/end of the integer). I.e. with input 122222233433 the result is 33 (1222222[33]4[33]; length 2, occurs twice) and not 222 (1[222][222]33433, length 3, occurs twice with both invalid).
  • This applies to all numbers that are counted towards the occurrence-counter. I.e. with input 811774177781382 the result is 8 ([8]117741777[8]13[8]2; length 1, occurs thrice) and not 77 (811[77]41[77]781382 / 811[77]417[77]81382; length 2, occurs twice with one invalid) nor 1 (8[1][1]774[1]7778[1]382; length 1, occurs four times with two invalid).
• You can assume the input won't contain any digits 0 (it will match [1-9]+). (This is to avoid having to deal with test cases like 10002000 that should output 000, where most languages would output 0 by default.)
• You can assume the input will always contain at least one valid output.
• I/O are both flexible. Can be a list/array/stream of digits/bytes/characters or as string instead of a single integer.

General rules:

• This is code-golf, so shortest answer in bytes wins.
  Don't let code-golf languages discourage you from posting answers with non-codegolfing languages. Try to come up with an as short as possible answer for 'any' programming language.
• Standard rules apply for your answer, so you are allowed to use STDIN/STDOUT, functions/method with the proper parameters and return-type, full programs. Your call.
• Default Loopholes are forbidden.
• If possible, please add a link with a test for your code.
• Also, adding an explanation for your answer is highly recommended.

Test cases:

Input:  7888885466662716666 / [7,8,8,8,8,8,5,4,6,6,6,6,2,7,1,6,6,6,6]
Output: 6666                / [6,6,6,6]

Input:  3331113331119111 / [3,3,3,1,1,1,3,3,3,1,1,1,9,1,1,1]
Output: 111              / [1,1,1]

Input:            777333777333                   / [7,7,7,3,3,3,7,7,7,3,3,3]
Possible outputs: 777; 333; [777,333]; [333;777] / [7,7,7]; [3,3,3]; [[7,7,7],[3,3,3]]; [[3,3,3],[7,7,7]]

Input:  122222233433 / [1,2,2,2,2,2,2,3,3,4,3,3]
Output: 33           / [3,3]

Input:  811774177781382 / [8,1,1,7,7,4,1,7,7,7,8,1,3,8,2] 
Output: 8               / [8]

Input:  555153333551 / [5,5,5,1,5,3,3,3,3,5,5,1] 
Output: 1            / [1]

Input:            12321              / [1,2,3,2,1]
Possible outputs: 1; 2; [1,2]; [2,1] / [1]; [2]; [[1],[2]]; [[2],[1]]

Input:  944949949494999494 / [9,4,4,9,4,9,9,4,9,4,9,4,9,9,9,4,9,4]
Output: 4                  / [4]

Input:  8888858888866656665666 / [8,8,8,8,8,5,8,8,8,8,8,6,6,6,5,6,6,6,5,6,6,6]
Output: 88888                  / [8,8,8,8,8]

Input:  1112221112221111               / [1,1,1,2,2,2,1,1,1,2,2,2,1,1,1,1]
Output: 111; 222; [111,222]; [222,111] / [1,1,1]; [2,2,2]; [[1,1,1],[2,2,2]]; [[2,2,2],[1,1,1]]

Input:  911133111339339339339339 / [9,1,1,1,3,3,1,1,1,3,3,9,3,3,9,3,3,9,3,3,9,3,3,9]
Output: 111                      / [1,1,1]

Answer 1

05AB1E, 14 bytes

γТ1›ÏD€gZQÏ.M

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Explanation

γ                # group consecutive equal elements
 Т              # count the occurrence of each group among the list of groups
   1›Ï           # keep only groups with a count greater than 1
      D€gZQÏ     # keep only those with a length equal to the greatest length
            .M   # get the most common item

Answer 2

Jelly, 12 bytes

Œgœ-Q$LÐṀÆṃ'

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Previous version – 14 bytes

ŒgŒQ¬TịƲLÐṀÆṃ'

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How it works?

Œgœ-Q$LÐṀÆṃ' – Full program. Receives a list of digits as input.
Œg           – Group equal adjacent values.
  œ-Q$       – Multiset difference with itself deduplicate.
      LÐṀ    – Keep those that are maximal by length.
         Æṃ' – Mode. Returns the most common element(s).
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
ŒgŒQ¬TịƲLÐṀÆṃ' – Full program. Receives a list of digits as input.
Œg             – Group equal adjacent values.
  ŒQ           – Distinct sieve. Replace the first occurrences of each value by 1.
                 and the rest by 0. [1,2,3,2,3,2,5]ŒQ -> [1,1,1,0,0,0,1]       
    ¬T         – Negate and find the truthy indices.
      ịƲ       – Then index in the initial list of groups.
               – This discards the groups that only occur once.
        LÐṀ    – Find all those which are maximal by length.
           Æṃ' – And take the mode.

Answer 3

JavaScript (ES6), 79 73 68 bytes

Takes input as a string. Returns an integer.

s=>[...s,r=q=0].map(o=d=>q=s^d?o[!o[q]|r[q.length]?q:r=q]=s=d:q+d)|r

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Commented

s =>                      // s = input string, also used as the current digit
  [ ...s,                 // split s into a list of digit characters
    r =                   // r is the final result
    q =                   // q is the current digit sequence
    0                     // append a final dummy entry to force the processing of the last
  ]                       // sequence
  .map(o =                // o is an object used to keep track of encountered sequences
       d =>               // for each digit d in the array defined above:
    q =                   //   update q:
      s ^ d ?             //     if d is not equal to the current digit:
        o[                //       this statement will ultimately update o[q]
          !o[q] |         //         if q has not been previously seen
          r[q.length] ?   //         or the best result is longer than q:
            q             //           leave r unchanged
          :               //         else:
            r = q         //           set r to q
        ] = s = d         //       reset q to d, set the current digit to d
                          //       and mark q as encountered by setting o[q]
      :                   //     else:
        q + d             //       append d to q
  ) | r                   // end of map(); return r, coerced to an integer

Answer 4

Retina, 56 bytes

L`(.)\1*
O`
L$m`^(.+)(¶\1)+$
$#2;$1
N`
.+;

N$`
$.&
-1G`

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L`(.)\1*

List all the maximally repeated digit subsequences.

O`

Sort the list into order.

L$m`^(.+)(¶\1)+$
$#2;$1

List all the multiple subsequences with their "count".

N`

Sort in ascending order of count.

.+;

Delete the counts.

N$`
$.&

Sort in ascending order of length. (Where lengths are equal, the previous order due to count is preserved.)

-1G`

Keep the last i.e. longest value.

Answer 5

Perl 6, 58 56 bytes

*.comb(/(.)$0*/).Bag.max({.value>1,+.key.comb,.{*}}).key

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Answer 6

R, 102 bytes

function(i)rep(names(sort(-(x=(x=table(rle(i)))[rowSums(x>1)>0,,drop=F])[m<-max(rownames(x)),])[1]),m)

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Since there wasn't an R answer yet, I decided to give it a try, and well... it wasn't easy. I don't really know whether it is a good approach, but here it goes.

Inputs and outputs vectors of characters.

Answer 7

Python 2, 123 120 bytes

import re
def f(s):r=re.findall(r'(\d)(\1*)',s);c=r.count;print max((len(a+b)*(c((a,b))>1),c((a,b)),a+b)for a,b in r)[2]

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Answer 8

Powershell, 101 byte

($args|sls '(.)\1*'-a|%{$_.Matches}|group|?{$_.Count-1}|sort @{e={$_.Name.Length,$_.Count}})[-1].Name

Explanied test script:

$f = {

(
    $args|          # for each argument (stings)
    sls '(.)\1*'-a| # searches all
    %{$_.Matches}|  # regex matches
    group|          # group it (Note: Count of each group > 0 by design)
    ?{$_.Count-1}|  # passthru groups with Count not equal 1
    sort @{         # sort all groups by 2 values
        e={$_.Name.Length,$_.Count}
    }
)[-1].Name          # returns name of last group (group with max values)

}

@(
    ,('7888885466662716666', '6666')
    ,('3331113331119111', '111')
    ,('777333777333', '777','333')
    ,('122222233433', '33')
    ,('811774177781382', '8')
    ,('555153333551','1')
    ,('12321', '1','2')
    ,('944949949494999494','4')
    ,('8888858888866656665666','88888')
    ,('1112221112221111','111','222')
) | % {
    $s,$e = $_
    $r = &$f $s
    "$($r-in$e): $r"
}

Output:

True: 6666
True: 111
True: 777
True: 33
True: 8
True: 1
True: 1
True: 4
True: 88888
True: 111

Answer 9

Python 2, 114 113 bytes

-1 byte thanks to TFeld.

p='';r=[];C=r.count
for c in input():r+=['']*(c!=p);r[-1]+=c;p=c
print max((len(w),C(w),w)for w in r if~-C(w))[2]

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Answer 10

Haskell, 72 bytes

import Data.Lists
g!x|y<-countElem x g=(y>1,1<$x,y)
(argmax=<<(!)).group

How it works

(argmax=<<(!)).group       -- expands to: f i = argmax (group i !) (group i)
    group                  -- split the input list into subsequences of equal digits
                           -- e.g. "1112211" -> ["111","22","11"]

                           -- find the element of this list where the function !
                           -- returns the maximum value. First parameter to !
                           -- is the grouped input list, second parameter the
                           -- the element to look at 

g!x|
    y<-countElem x g       -- let y be the number of occurrences of x in g
  = (  ,   ,  )            -- return a triple of
     y>1                   -- a boolean y>1  (remember: True > False)  
        1<$x               -- length of x (to be exact: all elements in x
                           -- replaced by 1. This sorts the same way as the
                           -- length of x)
             y             -- y
                           -- a triples sorts lexicographical

Answer 11

R, 85 bytes

function(x,R=rle(x),a=ave(R$v,R,FUN=length))rep(R$v[o<-order(a<2,-R$l,-a)[1]],R$l[o])

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• Input : a vector of separated integer digits e.g. c(1,8,8...)

• Output : a vector of separated integer digits

Unrolled code with explanation :

function(x){                # x is a vector of digits : e.g. c(1,1,8,8,1,1)

R = rle(x)                  # Get the sequences of consecutive repeating digits
                            # doing run length encoding on x, i.e. : R is a list
                            # with the digits (R$values) and the number of their
                            # consecutive occurrencies (R$lengths)
                            # N.B. you can use R$v for R$values and R$l for R$lenghts

a=ave(R$v,R,FUN=length)     # Group R$v by R$l AND R$v, count the occurrencies 
                            # for each group and "unroll" the value of each 
                            # group to the original R$v length.
                            # Here basically we count the occurrencies of the same 
                            # sequence.

o<-order(a<2,-R$l,-a)[1]    # Get the indexes used to order by a < 2 then by -R$l and
                            # finally by -a; store the first index in "o".
                            # Here basically we use order to select the first sequence 
                            # repeated at least twice, in case of ties the sequence 
                            # with the greatest length and in case of ties the most 
                            # repeated sequence.

rep(R$v[o],R$v[o])          # Using the index "o", we reconstruct the sequence repeating
                            # R$l[o] times R$v[o]
}

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Alternative version accepting vector of integer or character digits :

R, 88 bytes

function(x,R=rle(x),a=ave(R$v,R,FUN=length))rep(R$v[o<-tail(order(a>1,R$l,a),1)],R$l[o])

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• Input : a vector of separated characters or digits e.g. c("1","8","8"...) or c(1,8,8...)

• Output : a vector of separated characters if the input was a vector of characters, a vector of digits if the input was a vector of digits

Answer 12

Ruby, 68 67 bytes

->a{(b=a.chunk &:+@).max_by{|x|[(c=b.count x)<2?0:x[1].size,c]}[1]}

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Inputs and outputs arrays of chars.

The approach is pretty straightforward: we identify the runs of consecutive digits (chunk using unary + as identity function) and take the maximum - first by the size of the run (reset to zero if its occurrence count is < 2), then by the count itself.

Answer 13

Red, 256 250 bytes

func[s][p: func[b][sort parse b[collect[any keep[copy a skip thru any a]]]]first
last sort/compare collect[foreach d p p s[if 1 < k: length? to-block d[keep/only
reduce[form unique d k]]]]func[x y][(reduce[length? x/1 x/2])< reduce[length? y/1 y/2]]]

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Really, realy long solution this time... (sigh)

Takes the input as a string.

Explanation:

f: func [ s ] [
    p: func [ b ] [                        ; groups and sorts the adjacent repeating items
        sort parse b [ 
            collect [                      
                any keep[
                    copy a skip thru any a ; gather any item, optionally followed by itself  
                ]
            ]
        ]
    ]
    t: copy []
    foreach d p p s [                     ; p p s transforms the input string into a block of sorted blocks of repeating digits
        if 1 < k: length? to-block d [    ; filters only the blocks that occur more than once
            insert/only t reduce [ form unique d k ] ; stores the digits and the number of occurences
                                          ; "8888858888866656665666" -> [["5" 3] ["666" 3] ["88888" 2]]
        ]
    ]
    first last sort/compare t func [ x y ] ; takes the first element (the digits) of the last block of the sorted block of items
        [ (reduce [ length? x/1 x/2 ]) < reduce [ length? y/1 y/2 ] ] ; direct comparison of the blocks
]

Answer 14

Java (JDK 10), 213 bytes

s->{int l=99,X[][]=new int[10][l],d,D=0,m=0,M=0;for(var x:s.split("(?<=(.))(?!\\1)"))X[x.charAt(0)-48][x.length()]++;for(;M<1&&l-->1;)for(d=0;d++<9;)if((m=X[d][l])>1&m>M){M=m;D=d;}for(;l-->0;)System.out.print(D);}

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Explanation (outdated)

s->{                                    // Lambda for Consumer<String>
 int l=99,                              //  Length of token, max is 99.
     X[][]=new int[10][l],              //  Array containing the occurrences per token
     d,                                 //  digit value
     D=0,                               //  digit holder for best sequence candidate
     m=0,                               //  holder of the current candidate
     M=0;                               //  best candidate for the current length of token.
 for(var x:s.split("(?<=(.))(?!\\1)"))  //  Tokenize the string into digit-repeating sequences
  X[x.charAt(0)-48][x.length()]++;      //   Add one occurrence for the token
 for(;M<1&&l-->1;)                      //  While no value has been found and for each length, descending. Do not decrease length if a value has been found.
  for(d=0;d++<9;)                       //   for each digit
   if((m=X[d][l])>1&m>M){               //    if the current occurrence count is at least 2 and that count is the current greatest for the length
    M=m;D=d;                            //     mark it as the current best
   }                                    //
 for(;l-->0;)System.out.print(D);       //  Output the best-fitting subsequence.
}                                       // 

Credits

• -9 bytes and bug spotting thanks to Kevin Cruijssen

Answer 15

PCRE, 152 bytes

(\d)(?<!(?=\1)..)(?=(\1*)(?!\1).*(?!\1).\1\2(?!\1))(?!(?:(?=\2((\3?+)(\d)(\5*)))){1,592}?(?=\2\3.*(?!\5).\5\6(?!\5))(?:\1(?=\1*\4\5(\7?+\5)))*+(?!\1))\2

See it in action on: https://regex101.com/r/0U0dEp/1 (just look at the first match in each test case)

This is just for fun, since regex isn't a real programming language in and of itself, and the solution is limited :P

Because a zero-width group such as (?:)+ only matches once and doesn't repeat indefinitely, and because PCRE internally makes copies of groups quantified with limits, I've had to use a magic number in there ("{1,592}"), which means we can only look up to 592 contiguous sets of digits ahead to find a competing set that could be longer than the one currently under inspection. More info on this concept here.

Answer 16

Perl 5, 88 bytes

my($m,%s);++$i%2*$s{$_}++&&($n=$s{$_}/9+length)>$m&&($a=$_,$m=$n)for pop=~/((.)\2*)/g;$a

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Slightly ungolfed, with tests:

sub f {
  my($m,%s);
  my($i,$n,$a);           #not needed in golfed version
  ++$i % 2  *  $s{$_}++
  && ($n=$s{$_}/9+length) > $m
  && ($a=$_, $m=$n)
    for pop=~/((.)\2*)/g; #i.e. 7888885466662716666 => 7 88888 5 4 6666 2 7 1 6666
  $a
}
for(map[/\d+/g],split/\n/,join"",<DATA>){ #tests
  my($i,@e)=@$_;
  printf "%-6s   input %-24s   expected %-10s   got %s\n",
    (grep f($i) eq $_, @e) ? "Ok" : "Not ok", $i, join('|',@e), f($i);
}
__DATA__
Input:  7888885466662716666     Output: 6666
Input:  3331113331119111        Output: 111
Input:  777333777333            Output: 777|333
Input:  122222233433            Output: 33
Input:  811774177781382         Output: 8
Input:  555153333551            Output: 1
Input:  12321                   Output: 1|2
Input:  944949949494999494      Output: 4
Input:  8888858888866656665666  Output: 88888
Input:  1112221112221111        Output: 111|222

Answer 17

Wolfram Language (Mathematica), 67 bytes

#&@@@MaximalBy[Select[Tally@Split@#,Last@#>1&],{Length@#,#2}&@@#&]&

Pure function. Takes a list of digits as input and returns a list of subsequences (in no particular order) as output. Not sure if the "must appear at least twice" clause can be handled more cleanly. Try it online!

Answer 18

Japt -h, 12 bytes

Input & output are strings.

ò¦ ñÊf@ÓZè¶X

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