LPM: filtering

Mik Firestone fireston at lexmark.com
Tue Mar 7 15:35:14 CST 2000


Sorry.  If you want to use the loop version, there has to be one push of the
string onto to array after the loop.

Ie,
> With neat tricks, you could probably come up with a more generic solution:
>     while ( length( $string ) > 50 ) {
> 	$string =~ s/^(.{0,50} (.+)$/$2/;
> 	push @stuff, $1;
>     }
      push @stuff, $string;

Sorry.

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