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>>>>> "RW" == RW  <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> writes:

RW> It's odd that people seem to be taking bla-bla so literally, when it's
RW> clearly a place holder for arbitary text. 

That's the problem when you provide an example instead of a rule.  But
oddly enough, once you figure out the actual rule, translating that into
a program is generally rather mechanical.  Hence the irony of such
questions.

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