Hi Monks!
I am trying to get the largest or longest string in a sentence, and add a space to break this long word/string if it has more than 30 chars long to avoid breaking where it supposed to display. I am trying to use a regular expressions but at this point I lost track, can get it to work, here I have same code where in a loop I can find the longest string in this test sentence but using a regular expression it fails. Any help would be nice! 
#!/usr/bin/perl

my $str2 = "Be careful what you wish for you just might get it -------
+--------test-----------results----------.";

my @words = split(/\b/, $str2); 
my $longestwordlength = 30;
my $longestword;

foreach my $word (split(/\s+/, $str2)) { 
      if (length($word) > $longestwordlength) {
        $longestword = $word;
        print "\n$longestword\n\n";
      }
 }

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Here would be where the magic should happen, but it doesn't: 
(my $break2 = $str2)=~ s/(length($str2)>30)/$1\n/mg;
print "\n$break2\n";

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Thanks for looking!

In reply to Finding the largest word in a string help! by Anonymous Monk

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