[thelist] Perl string help
Struan Donald
struan at exo.org.uk
Wed Feb 14 08:52:14 CST 2007
* at 13/02 22:37 -0700 Amy Johnson said:
> Thank you! This helped tremendously!
Glad it helped.
FWIW Bill's regex solution is quite likely quicker and it's certainly
a more Perlish solution. And if you can use the Text::Wrap solution
then that's even better as Text::Wrap is much more likely to handle
edge cases.
cheers
Struan
> > I am not a Perl guru but...
> >
> > assuming $text contains the text you want to split up then
> > the following should work. At the end you'll have an array
> > (@pieces) which contains all the pieces.
> >
> > my $piece_length = 250;
> >
> > my @pieces;
> > my $start = 0;
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