From: Gavin Kistner <gavin@...>
Date: 2005-09-15T09:37:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Quick and dirty word wrapping.

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On Sep 14, 2005, at 4:04 PM, David Tran wrote:
>> "Kroeger Simon (ext)" <simon.kroeger.ext siemens.com> wrote:
>> Hmm, nice, just one little thing:
>> it 'eats' chars...
>
> Hmmm.... Here is my quick fix for him ...
>
> class String
>      def wrap_to( col_width )
>          str = self.gsub( /(\S{#{col_width}})(?=\S)/, '\1 ' )
>          str.scan(/(.{1,#{col_width}})(?:\s+|$)/).flatten.join( "\n" )
>      end
> end

Very nice. My proprocessing didn't eat any characters, but it did  
allow for \S runs that were col_width+1 long, which the next step  
skipped over. David's lookahead does the trick nicely.


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