Tom, maybe I'm missing something important, but HTML table cells will wrap automatically. Setting width=50% for a cell should force wrapping to a maximum of half the current total column span.

I just tried it and I see the problem about spaces. Hmm. Afaik, somehow spaces are gonna have to go in there somehow. .. 
#!/usr/bin/perl


my $bigstring = 'qawsedrftgyhujikolplokijuhygtfrdeswaqawsedrftgyhujiko
+lp';
my $width = 10;
print padit($bigstring,$width,"\n");


sub padit
{
my $padme = shift;
my $width = shift;
my $separator = shift;
my $position = 0;
my $padded;
while ($position < length $padme)
    {
    $padded .= substr $padme, $position, 1;
    $position++;
    if ($position % $width == 0)
        {
        $padded .= $separator;
        }
    }
return $padded;
}

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best of luck
Andy

In reply to Re^2: •Re: Forcing a string with no spaces to wrap to fit on the screen by andyf
in thread Forcing a string with no spaces to wrap to fit on the screen by Anonymous Monk

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