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.TH COMMALIST PL "31-AUG-2001   PL www.sgpr.net"

.SH COMMALISTS
A commalist is a list of items, usually delimited with commas.  For example:
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	Harry,Ron,Hermione
.fi

.LP
Commalists allow a set of values to be manipulated as a unit, which is often
convenient.  There are
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Commalists may be suitable when individual values are known to be small in size 
(such as integer id numbers) and where it is known that there will not be a large 
number of choices.  The total length of a commalist is limited to 250 characters.

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The separator character is comma by default.  This cannot be "escaped" but it
may be changed to another character using the script directive
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