forcing line-wraps?

dusk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Fellow devotees of the divine sect of Perlaism, I am having trouble, and I would appreciate any help. I am trying to get perl to append a newline after input of 80 words. Any suggestions will help :)

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Re: forcing line-wraps? by merlyn (Sage) on Feb 19, 2001 at 02:36 UTC
See Text::Wrap in the core, or Text::Autoformat by "the Damian". -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker	[reply]
Re: forcing line-wraps? by eg (Friar) on Feb 19, 2001 at 02:38 UTC
Eighty words or eighty characters? If it's the latter, use Text::Wrap. If it's the former, um, `split` on `/\s+/` and `splice` or concatentate newlines to the appropriate places. Something like (untested): `for (my $i=79; $i<$#array; $i+=80) { $array[$i] .= "\n"; }` [download]	[reply] [d/l]