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Text::Wrap

Section: Perl Programmers Reference Guide (3)
Updated: perl 5.004, patch 04
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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 asingle paragraph at a time by breaking lines at word boundries.Indentation is controlled for the first line ($initial_tab) andall subsquent lines ($subsequent_tab) independently. $Text::Wrap::columnsshould 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() ispresented 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 <muirAATTidiom.com> with help from Tim Pierce andothers.

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