I still don't have the foggiest idea on how I would use that to do anything. How would I assign $description to that?

Also, I checked out Text::Wrap and it's not going to work. "It formats a single paragraph at a time by breaking lines at word boundries", it sounds like this will only work if they person uses real words and spaces, my problem is someone can screw everything up by typing 

"zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
+zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
+zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
+zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
+zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz"

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and I need to find a way to break it up so it doesn't scroll the page (like it does here).

update (broquaint): added <code> tags around the problem string

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Scalar size limits by Anonymous Monk
in thread Scalar size limits by Anonymous Monk

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