// Function to pad a string.. head, tail & punctuation
  
          punct = new Array(".", ",", "!", "?", ":", ";", "&", '"', "@", "#", "(", ")" )
  
          function padString(strng){
                  aString = " " + strng + " ";
                  for( i=0; i < punct.length; i++ ){
                          aString = replaceStr( aString, punct[i], " " + punct[i] + " ", 0 );
                  }
                  return aString
          }