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+It is often necessary to split a string into pieces 
+based on several different (potentially multi-character) separator strings, 
+while still retaining the information about which separators were present in the input. 
+
+This is particularly useful when doing small parsing tasks. <br>
+The task is to write code to demonstrate this.
+
+The function (or procedure or method, as appropriate) should 
+take an input string and an ordered collection of separators. 
+
+The order of the separators is significant: <br>
+The delimiter order represents priority in matching, with the first defined delimiter having the highest priority. 
+In cases where there would be an ambiguity as to 
+which separator to use at a particular point 
+(e.g., because one separator is a prefix of another) 
+the separator with the highest priority should be used. 
+Delimiters can be reused and the output from the function should be an ordered sequence of substrings.
+
+Test your code using the input string “<code>a!===b=!=c</code>” and the separators “<code>==</code>”, “<code>!=</code>” and “<code>=</code>”.
+
+For these inputs the string should be parsed as <code>"a" (!=) "" (==) "b" (=) "" (!=) "c"</code>, where matched delimiters are shown in parentheses, and separated strings are quoted, so our resulting output is <code>"a", empty string, "b", empty string, "c"</code>. 
+Note that the quotation marks are shown for clarity and do not form part of the output.
+
+'''Extra Credit:''' provide information that indicates which separator was matched at each separation point and where in the input string that separator was matched.
+