This is an interesting problem. I just finished reading (well started reading) Effecive Perl Programming and this is actually a good place to use an array slice (in my attempt at a solution). This is by no means a final solution, but hopefully it'll get you close and generate some ideas from other (wiser) monks.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;

my $n = shift;
$n--;

my $test = 'A huge string separated by lots and lots of words that I\'
+d like to break up into n shorter strings of length y';
my @words = split /\s+/, $test;

#First method, doesn't pickup the leftovers
for(my $i = 0; $i+$n < $#words; $i += $n+1) {
    print join(' ', @words[$i..$i+$n]), "\n";
}
print "\n\n";

#second method, picks up the leftovers
my $j = 0;
while($j+$n < $#words) {
    print join(' ', @words[$j..$j+$n]), "\n";
    $j += $n+1;
}
print join(' ', @words[$j..$#words]), "\n";

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In reply to Re: A Little String Help Please by c4onastick
in thread A Little String Help Please by craigt

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