diff --git a/run-length-encoding.py b/run-length-encoding.py
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+++ b/run-length-encoding.py
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+def sameChar(chars):
+	if len(chars) < 2 or chars[0] != chars[1]:
+		return 1
+	else:
+		return 1 + sameChar(chars[1:])
+
+def RLE(uncompressed):
+	total_chars = 0
+	compressed = []
+
+	while total_chars < len(uncompressed):
+		char_count = sameChar(uncompressed[total_chars:])
+		compressed.append(f"{uncompressed[total_chars]} {char_count}")
+		total_chars += char_count
+	
+	return " ".join(compressed)
+
+
+print(RLE(input("Uncompressed text: ")))