You should rely on HTML to do this - just specify the width of the column, preferably with a percentage: 
<td width="25%">big long sentance . . .</td>

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UPDATE:
The following _hack_ will work, but it's nasty: 
use constant POS => 10;

my $str = 'big old long sentance blah blah blah';
my $len;
foreach (split(/\s/,$str)) {
    $len += length;
    print;
    ($len % POS) ? print ' ' : print '<br>';
}

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UPDATED UPDATE:
Thanks nardo - that's what i get for changing my code from the testing board to the posting board (this cleverness thing just isn't working out for me today). Besides, a ternary operator in void context is evil. . . . 
#inside foreach
    $len += length;
    print;
    if ($len > POS) {        # thanks nlafferty
         print '<br>';
         $len = 0;
    }
    else {
        print ' ';
    }

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Jeff 

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In reply to (jeffa) Re: Wordwrap text by jeffa
in thread Wordwrap text by nlafferty

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