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From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@fr.inter.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] string to list?
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Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 19:55:45 +0200
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>  yeah that's a good idea. I didn't fancy spawning awk for every line of irc.

how about gross ifs/fn/`{...} trickery?