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Thank you, 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 v1.3 2008/09/21

This package does not require LaTeX (but eTeX is required). Consequently, the xstring.tex file should be installed in the tex/ subtree.

=========== Changes =========== * New macros : IfStrEqCase and IfEqCase These macros test if a string matches several other strings, with a specific code for each case and an optional alternative code if all test fail. * New macro : StrSplit Split a string after n characters. * New macro : StrCompare Compare 2 strings (2 tolerances possible, see manual). If the strings are equal, returns 0. If not, returns the position of the first difference. * Code improvement ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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