(Assuming you don't want paragraphs to wrap in the middle of words.)

Here's a nice little regex solution: 

$paragraph =~ s/([^\n]{0,70})(?:\b\s*|\n)/$1\n/gi;

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Or genericized to any width, determined by a variable: 
my $max_width = 40;
$paragraph =~ s/([^\n]{0,$max_width})(?:\b\s*|\n)/$1\n/gio;

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Smart Substrings has some interesting insight. Combining that with the solution above: 

$paragraph =~ s/([^\n]{50,70})(?:\b\s*|\n)/$1\n/gi;
while ( $paragraph =~ m/([^\n]{71})/ )
{
   $paragraph =~ s/([^\n]{70})([^\n])/$1\n$2/g;
}

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In other words, split lines which are more than 70 chars long and include no spaces. (Not sure the loop is necessary...)

In reply to Re: How to wrap text to a maximum width of 70 characters per line? by cLive ;-)
in thread How to wrap text to a maximum width of 70 characters per line? by anthonysj

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