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Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 00:57:07 +1100
Subject: Re: text formatting question
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 12:52 AM, Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> wrote:
> The assumption Chris made is that the characters XYC do *not* appear
> anywhere else in each string.  if they do, then you need to write a spec as
> to what criteria you can count on for the data.
>

Right. I should have mentioned that. Let's hope the OP is sufficiently
lucky as to have a separator uniqueness..


ChrisA