Hi Monks!
I'm trying to have a word wrapping using a regex in Perl. What I would like is about every 50 characters or so to check for the next white-space occurrence and replace that space with a new line, and then do this for the whole string. I'd like to avoid looping one character at a time or using substr or placing the value into an array if possible. The code sample I have works, I'd like one's option and suggestion if there is a better way or a better regular expression to accomplish this.
Here is the code: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

my $string = 'I'm trying to have a word wrapping using a regex in Perl
+. What I would like is about every 50 characters 
or so to check for the next white-space occurrence and replace that sp
+ace with a newline, and then do this for the whole string. 
I'd like to avoid looping one character at a time or using substr or p
+lacing the value into an array if possible.
The code sample I have works, I'd like someone option and suggestion i
+s there a better way or better regular expression to accomplish this.
+';

$string =~ s/(.{1,50}\S|\S+)\s+/$1\n/mg;

print "$string\n";
exit;

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Thanks for looking!

In reply to Word wrapping using a regex. by Anonymous Monk

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