Thanks for the suggestions, i've tried each and with varying success. I like the ­. The main problem with that is that i'm using Mason, and Mason has a handy |h thing which strips out HTML and things like &anything before displaying the string to the screen, so I can't really make any substitutions and add HTML code in... even escaped HTML code. So i'm a little bit stuck. I can of course just not use the Mason |h flag, but ideally I would like to just put everything in a table cell and FORCE that cell not to be more than x pixels wide. However if there are no line breaks or spaces in the string I don't think there is a HTML construct that will allow me to do this.

I hope I am making sense here.

I suppose i'm looking for a HTML solution to wrap around the string to force it to fit into the space I want, rather than actually changing the string itself.

Is this possible?

Thanks,

Tom

Tom, maybe I'm missing something important, but HTML table cells will wrap automatically. Setting width=50% for a cell should force wrapping to a maximum of half the current total column span.

I just tried it and I see the problem about spaces. Hmm. Afaik, somehow spaces are gonna have to go in there somehow. ..

#!/usr/bin/perl


my $bigstring = 'qawsedrftgyhujikolplokijuhygtfrdeswaqawsedrftgyhujiko
+lp';
my $width = 10;
print padit($bigstring,$width,"\n");


sub padit
{
my $padme = shift;
my $width = shift;
my $separator = shift;
my $position = 0;
my $padded;
while ($position < length $padme)
    {
    $padded .= substr $padme, $position, 1;
    $position++;
    if ($position % $width == 0)
        {
        $padded .= $separator;
        }
    }
return $padded;
}
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best of luck
Andy