for this i have remove lines greater than 2 in $text
To extract just 2 lines, you can do $top2 = $text =~ /^(.*\n.*\n)/;

You can avoid unnecessary work in Text::Wrap if you limit the string you submit to it to a bit over the absolute maximum length of 2 lines together (your text says 140 characters, indeed a bit over 2x60 + 2 for the newlines), because the rest will be cut off anyway. 

my $smstext = "This sentence will have more than 120 characters and i 
+want to truncate this string into two lines containing 60 characters 
+each and ignore characters above 140 in length" ;
use Text::Wrap;
local $Text::Wrap::columns = 60;
my($text) = wrap('', '', substr($smstext, 0, 140)) =~ /^(.*\n.*\n)/;
print $text;
__END__
Output:
This sentence will have more than 120 characters and i want
to truncate this string into two lines containing 60

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In reply to Re^3: Breaking String by bart
in thread Breaking String by harishnuti

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