Edit question (was Re: string manipulation question)

[Fairlight]

On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 08:12:13PM -0500, J. P. Radley may or may not have
proven themselves an utter git by pronouncing:
> 
> Because substituting the four characters
> 	"uary"
> for the four characters
> 	"    "
> does not change the length of the input string,
> whereas substituting <two characters> for
> <one character> expands the string length?

It's not a substitution, it's an addition in either case, via the < > edit
operator.  If it was a substitution, the first edit would break entirely,
nuking the character next to it.  It has to work consistantly.

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