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 These are readers for Miller file formats, stdio and mmap versions. The stdio
 and mmap record parsers are similar but not identical, due to inversion of
 processing order: getting an entire mallocked line and then splitting it by
-separators in the former case, versus spltting while discovering end of line in
+separators in the former case, versus splitting while discovering end of line in
 the latter case. The code duplication could be largely removed by having the
 mmap readers find end-of-lines, then split up the lines -- however that
 requires two passes through input strings and for performance I want just a