Just using Text::Wrap on HTML data might not do any damage by itself -- it would just be mucking with whitespace characters.

But doing something like s/\n/<br>\n/g; either with or without Text::Wrap would be a really bad idea. You could end up with <br> embedded inside other tags.

Sorry, but I had to "--" that suggestion. I misunderstood your suggestion.

update: re-read the idea, realized that you were actually suggesting using Text::Wrap on just the text data, after it was separated from the HTML tags. Right. Sorry about the misunderstanding. (The first reply still seems the better starting point.)

In reply to Re: Re: inserting html tags after X characters by graff
in thread inserting html tags after X characters by Anonymous Monk

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