in reply to Smoothing text input

You could use Text::ParseWords:

use Modern::Perl;
use Text::ParseWords;

say for shellwords 'This is just an average looking string.';

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Output:

This
is
just
an
average
looking
string.

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Re^2: Smoothing text input
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 29, 2012 at 17:42 UTC

    Thanks! I found Text::ParseWords just after the initial post

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      You're most welcome! It's a good find...

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