Text Wrapping with Regular Expressions - Ruby Snipplr Social Repository

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at May 16, 2008 17:12 by breakerjump

Initial Code

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

Initial URL

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

Initial Description

Hat tip: Allan Odgaard

Initial Title

Text Wrapping with Regular Expressions

Initial Tags

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Initial Language

Ruby