package Text::Wrap; # # This is a very simple paragraph formatter. It formats one # paragraph at a time by wrapping and indenting text. # # Usage: # # use Text::Wrap; # # print wrap($initial_tab,$subsequent_tab,@text); # # You can also set the number of columns to wrap before: # # $Text::Wrap::columns = 135; # <= width of screen # # use Text::Wrap qw(wrap $columns); # $columns = 70; # # # The first line will be printed with $initial_tab prepended. All # following lines will have $subsequent_tab prepended. # # Example: # # print wrap("\t","","This is a bit of text that ..."); # # David Muir Sharnoff # Version: 9/21/95 # =head1 NAME Text::Wrap -- wrap text into a paragraph =head1 SYNOPSIS use Text::Wrap; $Text::Wrap::columns = 20; # Default print wrap("\t","",Hello, world, it's a nice day, isn't it?"); =head1 DESCRIPTION This module is a simple paragraph formatter that wraps text into a paragraph and indents each line. The single exported function, wrap(), takes three arguments. The first is included before the first output line, and the second argument is included before each subsequest output line. The third argument is the text to be wrapped. =head1 AUTHOR David Muir Sharnoff =cut require Exporter; @ISA = (Exporter); @EXPORT = qw(wrap); @EXPORT_OK = qw($columns); BEGIN { $Text::Wrap::columns = 76; # <= screen width } use Text::Tabs; use strict; sub wrap { my ($ip, $xp, @t) = @_; my $r; my $t = expand(join(" ",@t)); my $lead = $ip; my $ll = $Text::Wrap::columns - length(expand($lead)) - 1; if ($t =~ s/^([^\n]{0,$ll})\s//) { $r .= unexpand($lead . $1 . "\n"); $lead = $xp; my $ll = $Text::Wrap::columns - length(expand($lead)) - 1; while ($t =~ s/^([^\n]{0,$ll})\s//) { $r .= unexpand($lead . $1 . "\n"); } } die "couldn't wrap '$t'" if length($t) > $ll; $r .= $t; return $r; } 1;