inserting line breaks in a string

[David Moore Jr.]

I have a problem with an HTML form.  I am collecting in put from a html 
textarea box, then displaying it to the scream on the next page. the 
problem is that the whole string is being displayed all on one line I want 
no more than 50 characters to display on each line. And only if the string 
is more than 50 characters.  Does anyone have a solution?

What about split and join?  I do not want to lose any charcters, but I 
believe that joining with a '<br>' would be a part of it.

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David Moore Jr.