diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index cc2ff90..3ee0617 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "bitsy-parser"
-version = "0.72.3"
+version = "0.72.4"
 authors = ["Max Bradbury <max@tinybird.info>"]
 edition = "2018"
 description = "A parser and utilities for working with Bitsy game data"
diff --git a/src/game.rs b/src/game.rs
index fa023ab..8c9ef82 100644
--- a/src/game.rs
+++ b/src/game.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-use crate::{Dialogue, Ending, Font, Image, Item, Palette, Room, Sprite, TextDirection, Tile, Variable, transform_line_endings, segments_from_string, new_unique_id, try_id, Instance, Error};
+use crate::{Dialogue, Ending, Font, Image, Item, Palette, Room, Sprite, TextDirection, Tile, Variable, transform_line_endings, new_unique_id, try_id, Instance, Error};
 
 use loe::TransformMode;
 
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ impl Game {
         }
 
         let string = string.trim_start_matches('\n').to_string();
-        let mut segments = segments_from_str(&string);
+        let mut segments = crate::segments_from_str(&string);
 
         let mut name = "".to_string();
 
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 2b95d01..0ce2677 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -108,11 +108,11 @@ fn transform_line_endings(input: String, mode: TransformMode) -> String {
     String::from_utf8(output.into_inner()).unwrap()
 }
 
-fn segments_from_string(string: String) -> Vec<String> {
+fn segments_from_str(str: &str) -> Vec<String> {
     // this is pretty weird but a dialogue can just have an empty line followed by a name
     // however, on entering two empty lines, dialogue will be wrapped in triple quotation marks
     // so, handle this here
-    let string = string.replace("\n\nNAME", "\n\"\"\"\n\"\"\"\nNAME");
+    let string = str.replace("\n\nNAME", "\n\"\"\"\n\"\"\"\nNAME");
 
     let mut output:Vec<String> = Vec::new();
     // are we inside `"""\n...\n"""`? if so, ignore empty lines