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Before doing what the fellow monks have suggested, I'd unify the --------'s with something like this, to be on the safe side:
s/{5,}/---------------------------------/;
You don't want ---- to be left in your text because there were more dashes in one separator, or segments failing to be separated because there weren't enough.
You don't want ---- to be left in your text because there were more dashes in one separator, or segments failing to be separated because there weren't enough.
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