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Preprocessing

Let's merge in the preprocessor
Actually this is a little tricky
The preprocessor adds a ; to the apply line
That looks rather innocent, but:

     14 $/=";";
     15 $ct_scanout = 0;
     16 while (<INFILE2>) {
         ...
     29 }

That ; is treated later as a record separator!
And it turns out that the apply lines already have ;'s!

     apply "grp1_load" 0 =;

This is quite a head-scratcher

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