Given an input string, delete recursively all the duplicate adjacent characters and return a string where all those adjacent characters that are the same have been reduced to just a single character.

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Given an input string, delete recursively all the duplicate adjacent characters and return a string where all those adjacent characters that are the same have
been reduced to just a single character.
Do not use any loops.
Do not use any regular expressions and methods such as matches, split, replaceAlI.
Test case 1:
delDuplicate("aaabbc")
"abc"
Test case 2:
delDuplicate("aaaaa")
"a"
Transcribed Image Text:Given an input string, delete recursively all the duplicate adjacent characters and return a string where all those adjacent characters that are the same have been reduced to just a single character. Do not use any loops. Do not use any regular expressions and methods such as matches, split, replaceAlI. Test case 1: delDuplicate("aaabbc") "abc" Test case 2: delDuplicate("aaaaa") "a"
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