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On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, [iso-8859-1] Jakob ?stergaard wrote:

> So just ignore square brackets that have "=" " " and ">" between them ?
> 
> What happens when someone decides  "[---->   ]" looks cooler ?

First of all, whoever had chosen that output did a fairly idiotic thing.
But as for your question - you _do_ know what regular expressions are,
don't you?  And you do know how to do this particular regex without
any use of library functions, right?

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