Showing unique characters in a string only once

Question

I have a string with repeated letters. I want letters that are repeated more than once to show only once. For instance I have a string aaabbbccc i want the result to be abc.

Answer 1

Convert it to an array first, then use the answer here, and rejoin, like so:

var nonUnique = "ababdefegg";
var unique = nonUnique.split('').filter(function(item, i, ar){ return ar.indexOf(item) === i; }).join('');

All in one line :-)