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NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

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Example

Suppose the following are two input lines for X-PLOR:
this is {comment}  a (test):   method=testing  procedure=   
parsing   ! comment
The information that X-PLOR will receive from the parsing routines will then consist of a stream of words
THIS
IS
A 
(
TEST
)
:
METHOD
=
TESTING 
PROCEDURE
=
PARSING
In particular, the spacing and the carriage return have no influence on the interpretation of the input.



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