Write a program to input a word from the user and remove the consecutive repeated characters by replacing the sequence of repeated characters by its single occurrence. code example

Example: Write a program to input a word from the user and remove the consecutive repeated characters by replacing the sequence of repeated characters by its single occurrence.

//java program to input a word from the user and remove the consecutive repeated characters by replacing the sequence of repeated characters by its single occurrence
import java.util.*;
class Remove_Rep_Char
{
    public static void main(String args[])
    {
        Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
        System.out.println("Enter any word: "); 
        String s = sc.nextLine();
        s = s + " "; 
        int l=s.length(); 
        String ans=""; 
        char ch1,ch2;
        for(int i=0; i<l-1; i++)
        {
            ch1=s.charAt(i);
            ch2=s.charAt(i+1); 
            if(ch1!=ch2)
            {                   
            ans = ans + ch1;
            }
        }
        System.out.println("Word after removing repeated characters = "+ans); 
    }
}