CTAN hazs a new package: stringstrings

CTAN Announcements ctan-ann at dante.de
Mon Mar 31 14:27:49 CEST 2008


A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at
your favorite mirror

Thanks again,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College

........................................................................

The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: stringstrings
Author's name: Steven B. Segletes
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/stringstrings
Summary description: String manipulation for cosmetic and 
  programming application
License type: lgpl

Announcement text: 
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package provides a large and sundry array of routines for the 
manipulation of strings.  The routines are developed not only for 
cosmetic application, such as the changing of letter cases, selective 
removal of character classes, and string substitution, but also for 
programming application, such as character look-ahead applications, 
argument parsing, if-tests for various string conditions, etc.  A key 
tenet employed during the development of this package (unlike, for 
comparison, the \uppercase and \lowercase routines) was to have 
resultant strings be ``expanded'' (i.e., the product of an \edef), 
so that the \stringstrings routines could be strung together 
sequentially and nested (after a fashion) to achieve very complex 
manipulations.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

This package is located at 
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/stringstrings
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/stringstrings
(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 .



More information about the Ctan-ann mailing list