note 83959 deleted from function.str-replace by felipe

Note Submitter: jaimthorn at yahoo dot com ---- On the 13th of May, John wrote (with what I -perhaps incorrectly- identified as 'sarcasm') an article in which he described a way to replace double characters with single ones. "It passes. You're done!", he wrote euphorically, apparently without testing his own code --because his smash function fails with a Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ';', expecting '{' Lesson to be learned: be very, very careful when you're being very, very cocky. :-)