String manipulation with conditionals

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Further to @gonhaddock 's post, see here for other String Manipulation “features”…

Fun with String Manipulation's "undocumented features"

For a while now I’ve been using various features of String Manipulation that you won’t generally find documented. I guess therefore, that what I am writing here should be given the caveat “use at your own risk” since it is always possible that in the future, the String Manipulation (and its “(variable)” counterpart node) could be rewritten and the undocumented features would no longer work. However, since it sits on top of java, and these features make use of its close relationship with java, i…