text formatting question

[Chris Angelico]

On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 12:52 AM, Dave Angel <davea at davea.name> wrote:
> The assumption Chris made is that the characters XYC do *not* appear
> anywhere else in each string.  if they do, then you need to write a spec as
> to what criteria you can count on for the data.
>

Right. I should have mentioned that. Let's hope the OP is sufficiently
lucky as to have a separator uniqueness..


ChrisA