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You're sure in the running for the "unhelpful reply of the day" award
I think ww's response is the best post in this thread.
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Re^4: split function using multiple delimiters
by educated_foo (Vicar) on Dec 27, 2011 at 21:00 UTC
    How so?
    OP: How do I split a string on comma and/or "and"?

    ww: (lots of stuff not answering the question)

    How is that helpful?

      I read the reply as: "This is what your solution achieves currently. By looking at the results, you can probably see what goes wrong and split it into multiple sub-problems and possibly even have an idea on how to fix them." In other words, he was teaching debugging through inspecting data and it will help with the apparent "cobble together code and modify it until it appears to work" mentality the OP might have.