On Mar 6, M z said:
>I've written a little program to analyze lines that
>are longer than 70 characters, and if so, break at
>position 70 (if it is whitespace), if not whitespace
>(i.e. is in the middle of a word) it steps back to the
>first whitespace and breaks there.
s/(.{1,70})\s/$1\n/g;
That says "match between 1 and 70 characters (as many possible) and then a
piece of whitespace" and replace it with the same text, except convert the
whitespace into a newline. And the /g modifier says "do it for all
occurrences".
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