Method and apparatus for marking text between paired delimiters

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395600, 395146, 364DIG2, 364943, 36494343, G06F 1730

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ABSTRACT:
A method and a data processing apparatus are disclosed for marking characters of a character string, which string is resident in the data processing system. The disclosed invention finds, in the string, a first character that matches a character of a predefined set of characters; as a result of finding the first character, identifies a character predefined as paired with the matched character of the predefined set of characters; finds, in the string, a second character that matches the paired character; and marks the characters of the string between the first character and second character.

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