in reply to Re^4: Breaking String
in thread Breaking String

I think you should try that on the sample input in the post to which you replied.

This sentence will have more than 120 characters and i want to truncate this string into two lines containing 60 characters each and ignore characters above 140 in length

The wrap has to come first because you don't know what your newlines will look like until then. And to normalize it, newlines could be taken out before the wrap. That way you don't end up with messages like- 

Hi, it's really
important that you

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