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Word wrap in Ruby
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gistfile1.rb
# It works for pure text only. It will fail for html and url type of text.
# http://henrik.nyh.se/2007/03/ruby-wordwrap-method
def wrap_long_string(text,max_width = 20)
(text.length < max_width) ?
text :
text.scan(/.{1,#{max_width}}/).join("<wbr>")
end
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