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 ## Contributing
 
 Contributors are welcome! Please see the [current issues](https://github.com/andygrove/sqlparser-rs/issues) and feel free to file more!
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+Please run [cargo fmt](https://github.com/rust-lang/rustfmt#on-the-stable-toolchain) to ensure the code is properly formatted.
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+# We use rustfmt's default settings to format the source code