While pelagic's answer is probably the best way to go here is some script to do it too.

#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; my $length=10; while (<DATA>) { my @bits=split; # defaults to splitng $_ on whitespace foreach (@bits) { while ((length $_) > $length) { print "long one\n"; # here we substitute an empty string for the # first $length characters and printing the # ones replaced print ((substr $_, 0, $length, "")."\n"); } print "$_\n"; } } __DATA__ This one is fine ThisOneIsNotReallySoGood Here is a mixedbagoflongbits and then reasonably shortishbutnotshorten +ough

Cheers,
R.

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In reply to Re: breaking up lines along white spaces with max length by Random_Walk
in thread breaking up lines along white spaces with max length by szabgab

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