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public function output_split($parts, $class, $outertag='span', $innertag='span', $extraclass=null)
{
$parts['data'] = str_replace('+', '', $parts['data']);
parent::output_split($parts, $class, $outertag='span', $innertag='span', $extraclass=null);
}