While I strongly recommend a robust and tested pretty printer solution here is an example of how you could do it in a few lines of Perl. Not really very robust but you could do:

Update. Opps, wrong lang. Changed from trailing \ to \t indent continuation

my $wrap = 76; my $tab = 4; # spaces occupied by tab while(<DATA>) { do{ print; next } if length($_) < $wrap; do{ print "\n"; next } if m/^\s*$/; s/^(\s*)(?=\S)// or die "Choked on $_\n"; my $indent = $1; my $l_wrap = $wrap - length($indent) - $tab; my @bits = $_ =~ m/\G(.{1,$l_wrap})\s+/gc; for ( my $i = 0; $i <@bits; $i++ ) { print $i == 0 ? "$indent$bits[$i]\n" : "$indent\t$bits[$i]\n"; } } __DATA__ class ClassMyClassNameNoMatterHowLongItIsName:public BaseClass { blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah b +lah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah +blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah + blah public: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah b +lah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah } __END__ class ClassMyClassNameNoMatterHowLongItIsName:public BaseClass { blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah bl +ah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah bl +ah blah blah blah public: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah }

cheers

tachyon

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In reply to Re: Text Wrapping by tachyon
in thread Text Wrapping by Anonymous Monk

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