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Wrap Text

Published in: Ruby 

URL: http://macromates.com/blog/archives/2006/06/28/wrapping-text-with-regular-expressions/

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  1. def wrap_text(txt, col = 80) 
  2.      txt.gsub(/(.{1,#{col}})( +|$\n?)|(.{1,#{col}})/, "\\1\\3\n") 
  3. end

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