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Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: xstring Author's name: Christian Tellechea Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/xstring Summary description: manipulation of strings License type: lppl
Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- package xstring update version v1.1 <2008/08/15> ======= Changes ======= * does not require LaTeX anymore (but eTeX required). Consequently, the xstring.tex file should be installed in the tex/ subtree. * new tests : IfInteger and IfDecimal * improved code, and minor bugfixes ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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