Kotlin: Run length encoding - kotlin

Question

The program works, however, I still get a logical error: the final letter doesn't run through. For example, when I enter aaaabbbbccccdddd the output I get is a4b4c4 but there is no d4.
fun main () {
val strUser = readLine()!!.toLowerCase()
val iLength = strUser!!.length
var iMatch : Int = 0
var chrMatch : Char = strUser[0]
for (i in 0..iLength) {
if (strUser[i] == chrMatch) {
iMatch += 1
}else {
print("$chrMatch$iMatch")
chrMatch = strUser[i]
iMatch = 1
}
}
}

Answer 1

There are many solutions, but the best is RegExp
fun encode(input: String): String =
input.replace(Regex("(.)\\1*")) {
String.format("%d%s", it.value.length, it.groupValues[1])
}
demo
Test result
println(encode("aaaabbbbccccdddd")) // 4a4b4c4d

Answer 2

strUser contains chars by indexes from 0 to iLength - 1 so you have to write for (i in 0 until iLength) instead of for (i in 0..iLength)
But Tenfour04 is completely right, you can just iterate strUser without indexes:
fun main() {
val strUser = readLine()!!.toLowerCase()
var iMatch: Int = 0
var chrMatch: Char = strUser[0]
for (char in strUser) {
if (char == chrMatch) {
iMatch += 1
} else {
print("$chrMatch$iMatch")
chrMatch = char
iMatch = 1
}
}
}

Answer 3

fun main () {
val strUser = readLine()!!.toLowerCase()
var iMatch : Int = 0
var chrMatch : Char = strUser[0]
for (char in strUser+1) {
if (char == chrMatch) {
iMatch += 1
}else {
print("$chrMatch$iMatch")
chrMatch = char
iMatch = 1
}
}
}

Answer 4

fun runLengthEncoding(inputString: String): String {
val n=inputString.length
var i : Int =0
var result : String =""
while(i<n){
var count =1
while(i<n-1 && inputString[i] == inputString[i+1]){
count ++
i++
}
result=result.toString()+count.toString()+inputString[i].toString()
i++
}
return result
}