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Word breaker (or how to split a string into lines)

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Parameters: required **[string]**, optional **[number of lines]**.

By default it breaks the string passed into 3 lines.

It takes a string and converts it to an array of strings, splitting the original string into smaller parts (useful for word breaking).

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  1. var lineSplit = function(str, lines){
  2. 	lines = lines || 3;
  3. 	var strArr = str.split(" "),
  4. 		cropSize = Math.ceil(strArr.length / lines),
  5. 		splitted = [];
  6. 	while(strArr.length){
  7. 		splitted.push(strArr.splice(0, cropSize).join(" "));
  8. 	}
  9. 	return splitted;
  10. };

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