Excerpts from Nick's message of vie sep 10 20:36:24 -0400 2010:
> Yes, that gets down to the root of my question... what is the
> expression that would properly split the values? -Nick
The only idea that comes to mind right now is to remove them before
processing the rest of the string, and put them back to the first and
last element if they were removed.
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