Re: Counting characters in a string

in reply to Counting characters in a string

In other words you want to wrap your string ?

#!perl-w
use Text::Wrap;

$string = "this is just a test\nthis is another test\nthis is yet a no
+ther test\n";


$Text::Wrap::columns = 4;
print wrap('', '', $string);
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