Text::Wrap - line wrapping to form simple paragraphs
Example 1
use Text::Wrap $initial_tab = "\t"; # Tab before first line $subsequent_tab = ""; # All other lines flush left print wrap($initial_tab, $subsequent_tab, @text); print fill($initial_tab, $subsequent_tab, @text); @lines = wrap($initial_tab, $subsequent_tab, @text); @paragraphs = fill($initial_tab, $subsequent_tab, @text);
Example 2
use Text::Wrap qw(wrap $columns $huge); $columns = 132; # Wrap at 132 characters $huge = 'die'; $huge = 'wrap'; $huge = 'overflow';
Example 3
use Text::Wrap $Text::Wrap::columns = 72; print wrap('', '', @text);
Text::Wrap::wrap() is a very simple paragraph formatter. It formats a single paragraph at a time by breaking lines at word boundries. Indentation is controlled for the first line ($initial_tab) and all subsequent lines ($subsequent_tab) independently. Please note: $initial_tab and $subsequent_tab are the literal strings that will be used: it is unlikley you would want to pass in a number.
Text::Wrap::wrap()
$initial_tab
$subsequent_tab
Text::Wrap::fill() is a simple multi-paragraph formatter. It formats each paragraph separately and then joins them together when it's done. It will destory any whitespace in the original text. It breaks text into paragraphs by looking for whitespace after a newline. In other respects it acts like wrap().
Text::Wrap::wrap() has a number of variables that control its behavior. Because other modules might be using Text::Wrap::wrap() it is suggested that you leave these variables alone! If you can't do that, then use local($Text::Wrap::VARIABLE) = YOURVALUE when you change the values so that the original value is restored. This local() trick will not work if you import the variable into your own namespace.
local($Text::Wrap::VARIABLE) = YOURVALUE
local()
Lines are wrapped at $Text::Wrap::columns columns. $Text::Wrap::columns should be set to the full width of your output device. In fact, every resulting line will have length of no more than $columns - 1.
$Text::Wrap::columns
$columns - 1
It is possible to control which characters terminate words by modifying $Text::Wrap::break. Set this to a string such as '[\s:]' (to break before spaces or colons) or a pre-compiled regexp such as qr/[\s']/ (to break before spaces or apostrophes). The default is simply '\s'; that is, words are terminated by spaces. (This means, among other things, that trailing punctuation such as full stops or commas stay with the word they are "attached" to.)
$Text::Wrap::break
'[\s:]'
qr/[\s']/
'\s'
Beginner note: In example 2, above $columns is imported into the local namespace, and set locally. In example 3, $Text::Wrap::columns is set in its own namespace without importing it.
$columns
Text::Wrap::wrap() starts its work by expanding all the tabs in its input into spaces. The last thing it does it to turn spaces back into tabs. If you do not want tabs in your results, set $Text::Wrap::unexapand to a false value. Likewise if you do not want to use 8-character tabstops, set $Text::Wrap::tabstop to the number of characters you do want for your tabstops.
$Text::Wrap::unexapand
$Text::Wrap::tabstop
If you want to separate your lines with something other than \n then set $Text::Wrap::seporator to your preference.
\n
$Text::Wrap::seporator
When words that are longer than $columns are encountered, they are broken up. wrap() adds a "\n" at column $columns. This behavior can be overridden by setting $huge to 'die' or to 'overflow'. When set to 'die', large words will cause die() to be called. When set to 'overflow', large words will be left intact.
wrap()
"\n"
$huge
die()
Historical notes: 'die' used to be the default value of $huge. Now, 'wrap' is the default value.
print wrap("\t","","This is a bit of text that forms a normal book-style paragraph");
David Muir Sharnoff <muir@idiom.com> with help from Tim Pierce and many many others.
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