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breakerjump on 05/16/08


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Text Wrapping with Regular Expressions

Published in: Ruby 

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

Hat tip: Allan Odgaard


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

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