I'm looking for a simple means of breaking long lines of non-whitespace seperated text.

I initially thought of using a class regexp like this:

if ( $line =~ /([^ \t]+{80})/ )
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But this didn't do what I want, and I realise that even if it did do what I wanted it'd not help me much.

What I'd like to do is break long lines of continuous text - if you've seen /. then like their comment filter.

Consider the line of input:

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb
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I'd like the output to be:

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb
[download]

(ie. One space inserted in the middle of continuous text which is longer than, say, 80 characters).

substr can easily be used to chop up the text, but it doesn't seem to help me in finding out if a given line should be broken - or where it should be broken if so.

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