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From: Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: substr() - copying or not copying, that is here the question.
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2025 11:07:55 +0200
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On 08.06.2025 14:35, Mack The Knife wrote:
> In article <1022d33$3copv$1@dont-email.me>,
> Janis Papanagnou  <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> On 03.06.2025 08:56, Mack The Knife wrote:
>>>
>>> You could check w/Arnold about his consulting rates. Perhaps
>>> he would do a patch for you, or write an extension function
>>> for you.
>>
>> This is an extremely stupid comment in so many ways!
> 
> Just out of curiousity, why?

I'm not interested in meta-chat. - But you can derive part
of the answer already from my recent reply to Kenny's post
(only a few days ago). HTH.

Janis

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