Hi Harry! On Thursday 08 Oct 2009 21:29:04 Harry Putnam wrote: > I'm just looking for a push to get started... I do have some perl > skills (pretty lowlevel to be sure) so can do basic formating with > printf and such. > > But here... I expect my input to be pretty uniform actually already > formatted ok. Except, 1 or 2 lines somewhere in the input that will be > longer and make reading the output a bit of a chore. > > I want to catch those long lines and format them like one might format > a news/mail message... wrapped at column 72 or so but also indented > whatever spcs looks good. > > I looked at perldoc -f format but that says its about pictures and > doesn't appear to be intended to format text. >
Have you tried http://search.cpan.org/dist/Perl6-Form/ ? Or maybe: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Text-Tabs+Wrap/ Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/ways_to_do_it.html Chuck Norris read the entire English Wikipedia in 24 hours. Twice. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
