# sub splBRK -- breaks a line of undefined length by replacing each $splBRK with a \n\t # # BUT the split /$splBRK/... (with or w/o parens) is NOT removing all splBRKs # NOR does it work with "/~~/" sted "/$splBRK/" sub splBRK { $_ = $aphor; if (/$splBRK/) { # are there any $splBRK??? print "\n\tFrom sub_splBRK: splBRK found\n"; # DEBUG stmnt } else { print "\n\n\t NO splBRK found\n"; &shortenlines; exit(75); } my @sect = split /$splBRK/; $new= join "\n\t", @sect; &shortenlines; }