How do we reduce repeating characters to a single character

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gmb1994
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How do we reduce repeating characters to a single character

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How do we reduce repeating, or multiple consecutive, characters to a single character, for example:

---- (multiple hyphens) => - (single hyphen)
aaaa (multiple letters) => a (single letter)
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Use the perl pattern

(.)\1+?

replace with

$1
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