require 'rubygems' ## # A collection of text-wrangling methods module Gem::Text ## # Wraps +text+ to +wrap+ characters and optionally indents by +indent+ # characters 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 end