This is messing up the page formatting both within this topic, and on the SoPW page on which this topic appears.

Sorry zork42 but no it doesn't. It seems you have changed your User Settings (Help for User Settings) to turn off code-wrapping and soft-hyphens, so the code isn't wrapped for you.

Its wrapped for me :) you can see yourself (probably) if you try perlmonks.NET or perlmonks.COM or perlmonks.ORG (whichever domain you aren't using, or simply log out) and you'll

See also Display Settings, Help for Display Settings , New code wrap options, Why is the PerlMonks page too wide?

Please could someone with god-like powers, or shaq, replace the long line 1 with a short line 1 (so the line numbering remains the same)?

For future reference, PerlMonks FAQ says the general approach to getting a node edited due to formatting,
to /msg nodeowner hey can you fix/edit... [id://]
or to /msg janitors hey can you fix/edit... [id://]
or to consider the node,
but only if its appropriate :) What do Janitors do?, How do I use the power of consideration responsibly?

Hi:)