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in reply to Re: Formatting Strings Without Interpolating Whitespace
in thread Formatting Strings Without Interpolating Whitespace

That was actually my first solution, but when I start increasing the complexity of the formatting from what I've shown here, that solution falls a bit short. Still, not a bad way to brute force it if I don't want to risk exploding my code all over the place by testing Xiong's solution.