From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-02-15T19:08:43+09:00
Subject: Re: method to WRAP text at _ # of characters?

On Sunday, February 15, 2004, 6:11:36 PM, Ruby wrote:

> Made myself a li'l Ruby class for sending email.

> But of course I'd like to wrap the outgoing body of text at
> 68 characters or so, before sending.

> Having taken PHP's "wordwrap" function for granted,
> (<http://us2.php.net/wordwrap>), I was surprised not to find
> a similar method built-in to Ruby.

> Or is it?
> Did I miss it?
> Am I going to have to write my own?
 

There's a wrap implementation in 'rough' (a CVS repository of
candiates for the Ruby standard library), as well as a few other text
manipulation things.  I'd like to see them all become standard,
although better organised than they are now.

Gavin