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+# Run Length Encoding
+
+Welcome to Run Length Encoding on Exercism's Go Track.
+If you need help running the tests or submitting your code, check out `HELP.md`.
+
+## Instructions
+
+Implement run-length encoding and decoding.
+
+Run-length encoding (RLE) is a simple form of data compression, where runs
+(consecutive data elements) are replaced by just one data value and count.
+
+For example we can represent the original 53 characters with only 13.
+
+```text
+"WWWWWWWWWWWWBWWWWWWWWWWWWBBBWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWB"  ->  "12WB12W3B24WB"
+```
+
+RLE allows the original data to be perfectly reconstructed from
+the compressed data, which makes it a lossless data compression.
+
+```text
+"AABCCCDEEEE"  ->  "2AB3CD4E"  ->  "AABCCCDEEEE"
+```
+
+For simplicity, you can assume that the unencoded string will only contain
+the letters A through Z (either lower or upper case) and whitespace. This way
+data to be encoded will never contain any numbers and numbers inside data to
+be decoded always represent the count for the following character.
+
+## Source
+
+### Created by
+
+- @MatForsberg
+
+### Contributed to by
+
+- @bitfield
+- @ekingery
+- @ferhatelmas
+- @hilary
+- @ilmanzo
+- @leenipper
+- @sebito91
+
+### Based on
+
+Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run-length_encoding