I tried your code with the following setup: 
    INST_FILE    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0/Text/Wrap.pm
    INST_VERSION 2001.0929

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and with the following sample data file: 
Here is a sample file that contains longish lines of text to
be wrapped.  It also contains really long words, for example:
superantidisestablishmentarianismabilityness, which weighs in
at 45 characters (I think), counting the comma.

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and that yielded the following: 
Here is a sample file that contains
longish lines of text to
be wrapped.  It also contains really
long words, for example:
superantidisestablishmentarianismabilit
yness, which weighs in
at 45 characters (I think), counting
the comma.

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(Note that the last six characters of the long word were wrapped to the next line -- not five -- because Text::Wrap's notion of "column width" includes the line termination as part of the maximum allowed length.)

So, I'm not seeing the problem you mention (the big word didn't just disappear -- it's still there, and is split into pieces according to the allowed max width). Maybe there's some other step in trip to your palm pilot where something is getting lost?

Personally, I find the "picket-fence" effect demonstrated with my test file to be really annoying -- it works better if you do chomp @text; before passing the array to "wrap()".

update: BTW, I assume your real code does print FH wrap(...); -- not just "print wrap(...)".

In reply to Re: Text::Wrap and Long words by graff
in thread Text::Wrap and Long words by gohaku

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