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  • April 19, 2015 at 12:12 pm

    #1791889

    Eirikur Eiriksson (4/19/2015)

    Second solution, which is more efficient than the previous one as it doesn't use the XML concatenation.

    /* Find the group where the search word is closest to the

    delimiter and calculate the length of the extraction

    */

    I don't know if that's true or not (and I will find out) but what a freakin' awesome idea, Eirikur! And, not only does it work in 2K5 but I've got a couple of other ideas for this. Well done!

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