CTAN update: xstring

[CTAN Announcements]

This package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at
your local mirror.

Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College

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

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: manipulation of strings
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
----------------------------------------------------------------------
package xstring update
version v1.3   2008/09/21

This package does not require LaTeX (but eTeX is required). Consequently, 
the xstring.tex file should be installed in the tex/ subtree.

===========
Changes
===========
* New macros : \IfStrEqCase and \IfEqCase
   These macros test if a string matches several
   other strings, with a specific code for each case
   and an optional alternative code if all test fail.
* New macro : \StrSplit
   Split a string after n characters.
* New macro : \StrCompare
   Compare 2 strings (2 tolerances possible, see
   manual). If the strings are equal, returns 0. If not,
   returns the  position of the first difference. 
* Code improvement
----------------------------------------------------------------------

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 .