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Censoring Curse Words with Grawlixes

Suppose that I would like to censor a curse word <word> using grawlixes, e.g. "What the #@$! are you doing?!" How can I define a command \censor such that \censor{<word>} results in a ...
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canonicalize file path strings in TeX

I have a package which recursively loads many little modules (essentially tex files) from relative file paths. As modules may load other modules, I have to be careful not to load modules twice, so I ...
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Why can't I compare a string with \par?

First of all: the package xstring cannot recognize a \par as argument. When I for example do this: \usepackage{xstring} \def\apar{\par} \def\str{a string} \IfStrEq{\str}{\par}{% true part }{% false ...
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TeX capacity exceeded while parsing a date string

I'm trying to parse a date (say, a due date) in a DD-MMM-YYYY format, e.g., 06-May-2012 and create macros \dueday, \duemonth, and \dueyear. I use xstring's commands to extract the substrings. Then I ...
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Xstring dealing with macros

I wrote the \bib command to reference authors in my thesis not using numeric or alpha references of natbib. It copies a piece of text, cut the first 60 characters (the width of my page} and put it ...
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Extract number from string and compare problem

I try to extract the year, month and day from a string and write different text depending on the given date. I thought I could use xstring and etoolbox, but I can'st get it to work. Here's the code ...
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Substituting strings only when not bounded by letters or numbers

Using StrSubstitute from xstring I can find and replace matches. For e.g.: \StrSubstitute{I like to eat fish.}{fish}{apples} gives "I like to eat apples." \StrSubstitute{Do you want to ...
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Splitting parameters in a macro

I have a macro like this: \newcommand{\listanimals}[1]{ Animals in the farm: #1. } So using \listanimals{pig / sheep / cow / duck / goat} will print: Animals in the farm: pig / sheep / cow ...