Text Formatting ⇒ Replacing characters in a string

[anthonymoss78]

Hi,

I have a latex variable

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\newcommand{\allStrings}{ string1:string2:string3}

How can I split this string up by the seperator and then write onto new lines (with a tab in front ) so it looks like a list .
So that in the output pdf looks something like the following :
ie
Strings : string1
string2
string3

Anyadvice would be brilliant ..... I am able to split up the string and write in one a new line ... However, i am unable to tab it out (see my function below)

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\usepackage{xstring}

\newcommand{\specialtext}[1]{%
    \StrSubstitute{#1}{:}{\tab   \hfill  \break  }[\myspecialtext]
    \textbf{\myspecialtext}}

thanks guys
Anthony (I am a newbie on this forum so thanks in advance for any help)