Re: posting text alignmen

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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Re^2: posting text alignmen by sh1tn (Priest) on Sep 03, 2005 at 14:18 UTC
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/$1< +br>/;push@__,$_}'` [download] Update: I do not guess, I am sure.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: posting text alignmen by 5mi11er (Deacon) on Sep 06, 2005 at 14:25 UTC
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...	[reply]