NAME

Text::Wrap - line wrapping to form simple paragraphs

SYNOPSIS

        use Text::Wrap

        print wrap($initial_tab, $subsequent_tab, @text);
        print fill($initial_tab, $subsequent_tab, @text);

        use Text::Wrap qw(wrap fill $columns);

        $columns = 132;

DESCRIPTION

Text::Wrap::wrap() is a very simple paragraph formatter. It formats a single paragraph at a time by breaking lines at word boundries. Indentation is controlled for the first line ($initial_tab) and all subsquent lines ($subsequent_tab) independently. $Text::Wrap::columns should be set to the full width of your output device.

Text::Wrap::fill() is a simple multi-paragraph formatter. It formats each paragraph separately and then joins them together when it's done. It will destory any whitespace in the original text. It breaks text into paragraphs by looking for whitespace after a newline. In other respects it acts like wrap().

EXAMPLE

        print wrap("\t","","This is a bit of text that forms 
                a normal book-style paragraph");

        print fill("", "", `cat book`);

AUTHOR

David Muir Sharnoff <muir@idiom.com> with help from Tim Pierce and others.