Your version chops off the beginning of words that are longer than the wrap length, instead of temporarily increasing the wrap length like the original snippet does.

For the text "Check out http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=438189 (it has nice line-wrapping snippet).", here is the output:

method 1: 

Check out
http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=438189
(it has nice
line-wrapping
snippet).

[download]
method 2: 
Check out
.org/?node_id=438189
(it has nice
line-wrapping
snippet).

[download]

In reply to Re: Tiny little paragraph wrapper by blahblahblah
in thread Tiny little paragraph wrapper by mw

Title:
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