[tw] : Replacement for Frontier's string.wrap function

“Replacement for Frontier's string.wrap function”
From:	Seth Dillingham	In Response To:	5416 Replacement for Frontier's string.wrap function
Date Posted:	Sunday, March 19, 2006 11:46:16 PM	Replies:	2

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Frontier's string.wrap is a nearly useless verb, and is especially weird because it does the opposite of what its name suggests: it actually unwraps a wrapped string. In other words, you pass it some text, like an email with hard returns at the end of every line, and it strips out the hard returns within the paragraphs and leaves the double-spaced paragraphs alone.

I'm working on a new version of this function that attempts to mimic the string-wrapping features in the better text editors like BBEdit or Mailsmith.

Rather than waste a ton of space on my home page and the RSS feed with this, I've put the full story on it's own page, Replacement for Frontier's string.wrap function.

I'm looking for testers. If you have a copy of Frontier, Conversant, Manila, Radio, or the OPML Editor, please take a look at that page and let me know how it works for you, ok?

Discussion Thread:

RE: Replacement for Frontier's string.wrap function (by Philippe Martin at 3/20/2006)

Hi Seth, It works fine here. I tried various parameters in both directions and got the expected result
Updated the string-wrapping functions (by Seth Dillingham at 3/21/2006)

I'll keep this one short: I've updated both of the usertalk-based string wrapping functions today. Thomas
- Re: Updated the string-wrapping functions (by Duncan Smeed at 3/21/2006)
  
  >I'll keep this one short: I've updated both of the usertalk-based >string wrapping functions today.
  - RE: Updated the string-wrapping functions (by Seth Dillingham at 3/21/2006)
    
    On 3/21/06, Duncan Smeed said: >Not sure if the following is a bug or a feature but I note that BBEdit
    - RE: Updated the string-wrapping functions (by Duncan Smeed at 3/21/2006)
      
      On 21-3-06 18:40, Seth Dillingham wrote: > >On 3/21/06, Duncan Smeed said: > >>Not sure if the following
      - RE: Updated the string-wrapping functions (by Seth Dillingham at 3/21/2006)
        
        On 3/21/06, Duncan Smeed said: >Barebones must have had their reasons. It could easily be an off-by-one

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