Is there an easy way to wrap text

I'm programatically building some text. I end up with a string of
about
1000 - 5000 characters.
When I'm done I need to break it into an array of strings, each with
80
chars or less. This is supposed to be readable when I'm done so I
can't
just chop it into 80 char sections.
Is there a function that does this or at least one that makes it easy?

Thanks

RickB wrote: How about this:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scr.../apssol06.mspx

Marco

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Lets start by building our string

PS> $str = "abcd" + "," + "efgh" + "," + "ijkl" + "," + "mnopq" + "," +
"rstu" + "," + "vwxyz"
PS> $str
abcd,efgh,ijkl,mnopq,rstu,vwxyz

I'm using , as a delimiter between the sections i.e. I will be splitting
this string at the commas. The delimter could be any character(s) even a
space - as long as you know it form part of any of your data sections

We can then create an array by using the Spilt() method giving the delimiter
you want to use

PS> $array = $str.Split(",")
PS> $array
abcd
efgh
ijkl
mnopq
rstu
vwxyz

If you have the PowerShell V2 CTP you could use the -split operator instead

PS> $array2 = $str -split ","
PS> $array2
abcd
efgh
ijkl
mnopq
rstu
vwxyz



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"RickB" wrote:

Thinking about there is another alternative.

Create an empty array

PS> $array3 = @()

In your program add the text directly into the array e.g.

PS> $array3 += "abcd"
PS> $array3 += "efgh"
PS> $array3 += "ijkl"
PS> $array3 += "mnopq"
PS> $array3 += "rstu"
PS> $array3 += "vwxyz"

Then its alreday for you and you saving the string building and splitting
effort

PS> $array3
abcd
efgh
ijkl
mnopq
rstu
vwxyz
PS>
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"RichS [MVP]" wrote:

On May 23, 1:21*pm, "Marco Shaw [MVP]" <marco.shaw@_NO_SPAM_gmail.com>
wrote: I kind of thought that might be the way folks would suggest.
I'll probably tweak it Tuesday it to split text (like
qualified file or table names) that might otherwise overflow
my 80 column limit because they don't contain spaces.
The other stuff at that link will probably be interesting
too. Maybe I'll have time to browse.
Thanks.