NAME

Text::NWrap - a simple text wrapping module

SYNOPSIS

    use Text::NWrap;

    $NWrap::columns = 132;
    NWrap::wrap('    ','',@text);

DESCRIPTION

Text::NWrap is a simple interface to Text::Format. If you want more functionality just use Text::Format. Text::NWrap is meant to replace Text::Wrap. Its interface is basically identical to Text::Wrap's.

wrap $firstIndent, $bodyIndent, @text

Wrap @text using $firstIndent for the first line's indent and $bodyIndent for the indentation of the body of the paragraph.

$columns

Lets you set the width of the paragraph. Default is 72 characters wide.

EXAMPLE

    use Text::NWrap;

    print NWrap::wrap('','',"hello world this is some silly example",
            " and some more text");

    use Text::NWrap qw(wrap $columns);

    $columns = 20;
    wrap("\t",'',"some text that should be wrapped");

AUTHOR

Gabor Egressy gabor@vmunix.com

Copyright (c) 1998 Gabor Egressy. All rights reserved. All wrongs reversed. This program is free software; you can redistribute and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.