Text::Wrap
Section: Perl Programmers Reference Guide
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Updated: perl 5.004, patch 55
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NAME
Text::Wrap - line wrapping to form simple paragraphs
SYNOPSIS
use Text::Wrap
print wrap($initial_tab, $subsequent_tab, @text);
use Text::Wrap qw(wrap $columns);
$columns = 132;
DESCRIPTION
Text::Wrap::wrap() is a very simple paragraph formatter. It formats a
single paragraph at a time by breaking lines at word boundries.
Indentation is controlled for the first line ($initial_tab) and
all subsquent lines ($subsequent_tab) independently. $Text::Wrap::columns
should be set to the full width of your output device.
EXAMPLE
print wrap("\t","","This is a bit of text that forms
a normal book-style paragraph");
BUGS
It's not clear what the correct behavior should be when Wrap() is
presented with a word that is longer than a line. The previous
behavior was to die. Now the word is split at line-length.
AUTHOR
David Muir Sharnoff <muir@idiom.com> with help from Tim Pierce and
others.
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