From: "Mark J.Reed" <mreed@...>
Date: 2005-10-04T12:11:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Wrapping strings

Mark J. Reed <mreed@thereeds.org> writes:

>>I have a string containing multiple lines that I would like to put
>>into a C++ file as a comment:
>>desc =3D ""
>>while (line =3D gets) !~ /^\.$/
>>  desc +=3D "#{line}"
>>end

[snippy-snip]
>    words = line.split(/\s+/)

Wrong Variable Syndrome.  That should be desc.split, not line.split.

>    while words do
>        line = '//   '
>        while words && line.length < 78 do
>	    line += words.shift + ' '
>	end
>	puts line
>    end