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 Package: formatters
 Title: ASCII Formatting for Values and Tables
-Version: 0.5.9.9007
-Date: 2024-12-10
+Version: 0.5.9.9008
+Date: 2024-12-18
 Authors@R: c(
     person("Gabriel", "Becker", , "gabembecker@gmail.com", role = "aut",
            comment = "original creator of the package"),
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-## formatters 0.5.9.9007
+## formatters 0.5.9.9008
 * Fixed a bug in `mf_update_cinfo` causing an error when `export_as_txt` was applied to empty listings.
 * Fixed a bug in `mform_handle_newlines` that did not allow printing to console a table that has top left information, new lines in the column names and contained only one row.
 * Fixed a bug in `mform_handle_newlines` that did not allow for empty strings to be present in top left information.