Gem::Text

A collection of text-wrangling methods

Public Instance Methods

format_text(text, wrap, indent=0) click to toggle source

Wraps text to wrap characters and optionally indents by indent characters

 
               # File rubygems/text.rb, line 12
def format_text(text, wrap, indent=0)
  result = []
  work = text.dup

  while work.length > wrap do
    if work =~ /^(.{0,#{wrap}})[ \n]/ then
      result << $1
      work.slice!(0, $&.length)
    else
      result << work.slice!(0, wrap)
    end
  end

  result << work if work.length.nonzero?
  result.join("\n").gsub(/^/, " " * indent)
end

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