Why do you want to force line wrapping of text w/<br>'s here on PM? It wraps text nicely already by letting it get handled as HTML, and code is wrapped at a user-defined line length...
What's an example of a node or two where you find this useful?
couple TWTOWTDI code comments:
- The print might as well just be print $/x3, $_, $/x3 (for fun, print join $_, ($/x3)x2; works too).
- The regex can be simplified a little (though i found your way clear as well) to be .{75,}?\s
- also w/the regex, i think that, since this is HTML, the \s should be outside of the capture, so the BR actually replaces the whitespace character.
- summary: perl -e '$_=<>;s/(.{75,}?)\s/$1<br>/gs;print$/x3,$_,$/x3'
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You are right in case that lines are over the max chars.
without alignment:
some text here
then another paragraph
and finally a long line with spaces ............. .......... ...... ... .. .
with alignment:
some text here
then another paragraph
and finally a long line with spaces ............. .......... .....
.
... .. .
I guess the code should be sm.th. like:
perl -e '$SIG{INT}=sub{print$/x2,"@__"};while(<>){s/(.{75,}?)\s|\n/$1<
+br>/;push@__,$_}'
Update: I do not guess, I am sure.
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While this could be useful at times, I think, I am confused as to what you are ultimately suggesting. Are you using <br>'s to break paragraphs? I personally use <p> to break paragraphs...
If, on the other hand, you're suggesting to use the breaks on lines within a paragraph, and I think you are, then I completely agree with davidrw that how a paragraph wraps should be left upto the person viewing it. I have a large-ish screen, I thank you for allowing me to use the available space and set the width that I like, and not force your paragraphs to wrap sooner; unless you have good reason to do so. -Scott Update: fixed some grammer issues...
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