well, what I remember eddie writing that the reason was that he couldn't contact the author of like() for request to fix it...

but now when you boys have been cracking this together, there could be special thanks section.
or even like in the BaseConverter() - for base2-base36 conversions

it anyway seems that you are going to improve it still.

btw, if you take a look at the udf-library, there are dublic functions.
differences vary from techniques to badly named functions.
anyway, as they are expoced, one can always get the best one, right?
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