From 87f0577c1d12351cf0808443b084614594e5e402 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: William Mantly <wmantly@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2023 00:17:27 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] done

---
 02-remove_dupe/duplicate.py | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/02-remove_dupe/duplicate.py b/02-remove_dupe/duplicate.py
index 6eb0181..ce6589b 100644
--- a/02-remove_dupe/duplicate.py
+++ b/02-remove_dupe/duplicate.py
@@ -1,2 +1,16 @@
-def remove_duplicate(string):
-  pass
+def remove_duplicate(sentence):
+  out = sentence[0]
+  dupes = ''
+  last = sentence[0]
+
+  for letter in sentence[1:]:
+    if letter == last:
+      dupes += letter
+    else:
+      out += letter
+    last = letter
+  return out
+
+assert(remove_duplicate('hello') == 'helo')
+assert(remove_duplicate('hhhhheeeeelllllooooo') == 'helo')
+