Hi, I was interested in formatted display on screen.
I can display ONE text paragraph in any part of the screen with Text::wrap. My question was how to adjust MANY such independent paragraphs in one screen (exactly in a newspaper format where you have 8-10 columns of news items on a single page). I wanted to know is there something like Text::wrap which can do this. Or Text::wrap can handle only one paragraph. If nothing like that exists then I might have to give up Text::wrap and use my own logic to adjust it. Moreover, I also wanted to use Term::Size to adjust the text with changing screen size. Is there any convenient way to do this ? I was looking for readymade stuff. Please suggest. Regards Rajeev -----Original Message----- From: Tom Kinzer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 12:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Help needed on perl wrappers I'm trying to figure out WHY you would ever want to create what you are asking for. Why-- is a good question here, because there may be a way to get to the real goal instead of creating this. For instance if it's just going into an HTML document, a table of course, would be easier. Just an example, so WHY are you wanting to do this? If this is really want you want, then: Do you really want a ragged left on the right column? Do you really want to use tabs? I'm thinking spaces would be easier to deal with for this problem and could buy you a justified left margin on the right column. More info please. -Tom Kinzer -----Original Message----- From: Pandey Rajeev-A19514 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 8:16 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Help needed on perl wrappers Hi, I have a text that I read from a file. I want to display the text on the screen in a column in a newspaper style. I do it like this.... $initial_tab = "\t\t"; $subsequent_tab = "\t\t"; print wrap($initial_tab, $subsequent_tab, @text1); print fill($initial_tab, $subsequent_tab, @text1); It will print like this ... I am a boy and I go to school everyday. I have to do a lot of homework and I dont get time to play these days. But if I have more than one independent text i.e. @text2, @text3 to be displayed in different columns, then what shall i do. I want something like this ... I am a boy and I go to school She is a girl and she also goes everyday. I have to do a lot of to school. I do all her homework homework and I dont get time and she gets plenty of time to to play these days play. Is there any mechanism to achieve this ? Best Regards Rajeev -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
