Replace consecutive characters with same single character

Question

I was just wondering if there is a simple way of doing this. i.e. Replacing the occurrence of consecutive characters with the same character.

For eg: - if my string is \

Answer 1

string myString = "something likeeeee tttthhiiissss";

char prevChar = '';
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
foreach (char chr in myString)
{
    if (chr != prevChar) {
        sb.Append(chr);
        prevChar = chr;
    }
}