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On 9/5/2011 3:57 PM, Roedy Green wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Sep 2011 13:11:33 -0700 (PDT), Lew<lewbloch@gmail.com>
> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
>
>>
>> Or use Arne's suggestion, which has the virtue of being compact and
>> employing the standard API without having to post-process the
>> output of 'format()'.
>
> but arne does not exist in my universe.  I had with him long ago and
> plonked him.


Then maybe you should un-plonk him, because he write good code and has 
valuable insights.