This is a problem for a routine(s) I'm thinking of writing.
Given a piece of text like this:

"my text [and maybe|and here's] more text"
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I want an array (or other collection) of these strings

"my text and maybe more text"
"my text and here's more text"
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given this line:

"my text [and maybe|and here's] more text [the end|stop]"
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I would get:

"my text and maybe more text the end"
"my text and here's more text the end"
"my text and maybe more text stop"
"my text and here's more text stop"
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and given:

"my text [[and|or] maybe|and here's] more text"
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I want:

"my text and maybe more text"
"my text or maybe more text"
"my text and here's more text"
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(all characters except | should be just treated like text)
Something like this must exist - anyone know where?
thanks
Daniel

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