Shlomi Fish <shlo...@iglu.org.il> writes: > Hi Harry!
[...] >> >> 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/ Those do look tempting, especially the first, but both seem a little heavy handed for what I need... And might take me a good bit to figure out how to use them....I may just look for a specific line and torture it till it looks like I want it too. At this point my input will only include one recalcitrant line where there is a problem... but it makes the tool whos' output I want to fix put out all lines to match that long one... Where all but one line follow this: some setting=word setting=word setting=word ------- --------- ---=--- --------- -------- Adding the bad line does this: some setting=word <<lots of extra space now here>> setting=word setting=word some OtherSetting=a whole big long line of never ending words like this one causing the program to ouput setting=word setting=word ------- --------- ---=--- --------- -------- So the line with OtherSetting is causing all lines to be output with space to accommodate the long setting. The tool provided by OS does that on its own so I want to fix its ouput... I guess just watching for that line.. and manually folding it with perl will do what I want. If I can figure out how to clip out the extra space now included in all other lines. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
