A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at the mirror that you like best.

Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint MIchael's College

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: coolstr Author's name: N Setzer Author's email: nsetzer@umd.edu Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/coolstr Summary description: Deals with manipulation of strings License type: lgpl

Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The coolstr package is a subpackage of the cool package that deals with the manipulation of strings. A string is defined as a sequence of characters (not tokens).

The package provides the ability to access a specific character of a string, as well as determine if the string contains numeric or INT data. ----------------------------------------------------------------------

This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/coolstr . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=coolstr (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .