CTAN has a new package: xstring
Date: March 14, 2009 8:38:36 AM CET
This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should within a day be at
your local mirror.
Thanks,
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: String (token list) manipulation
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
package xstring update version v1.5b 2009/03/13 =========== What's new? =========== * bugfixes: under the \noexpandarg mode (strings are not expanded with \edef), test commands (\if, \ifx, \ifcat, etc) are now allowed in strings, with or without their \fi or \else.
This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xstring . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/xstring (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 .
package xstring update version v1.5b 2009/03/13 =========== What's new? =========== * bugfixes: under the \noexpandarg mode (strings are not expanded with \edef), test commands (\if, \ifx, \ifcat, etc) are now allowed in strings, with or without their \fi or \else.
This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xstring . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/xstring (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 .
xstring – String manipulation for (La)TeX
The package provides macros for manipulating strings — testing a string’s contents, extracting substrings, substitution of substrings and providing numbers such as string length, position of, or number of recurrences of, a substring.
The package works equally in Plain TeX and LaTeX (though e-TeX is always required). The strings to be processed may contain (expandable) macros.
| Package | xstring |
| Version | 1.86 |
| Copyright | 2008–2023 Christian Tellechea |
| Maintainer | Christian Tellechea |