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Thank you again, 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 Telllechea Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/xstring Summary description: manipulation of strings License type: lppl

Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package provides macros manipulating strings, such as: * tests: - does a string contains at least n times an another? - does a string starts (or ends) with another? etc. * extractions of substrings: - what is on the left (or the right) of the nth occurrence of a substring; - what is between the occurrences of 2 substrings; - substring between 2 positions, etc. * substitution of all (or the n first) occurrences of a substring for an other substring; * calculation of numbers: - length of a string; - position of the nth occurrence of a substring; - how many times a string contains a substring?

For programming purposes, other macros allow to use special characters (& ~ { } _ # $ ^ %) with the macros manipulating strings. ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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