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Re:Linux Text Manipulation by shawn_w on Thursday March 28, 2024 @04:37PM (#39857012)
Easily, though you don't need to drag external programs like fmt into it - perl comes with a standard module for word wrapping.

Text::Balanced (for extracting the quoted text) and Text::Wrap would be the core of such a program.

https://perldoc.perl.org/Text::Balanced

https://perldoc.perl.org/Text::Wrap

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Re:Linux Text Manipulation by undershirt on Thursday March 28, 2024 @06:01PM (#39857889)
Could you write it for me as a one-liner? I’d like to learn more Perl and this would help.
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Re:Linux Text Manipulation by shawn_w on Thursday March 28, 2024 @07:09PM (#39858543)
Oh, I wouldn't try to squeeze it down into a one liner. Maybe for a simple definition of the quoted text that doesn't need to account for edge cases like escaped quotes inside...
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Re:Linux Text Manipulation by undershirt on Thursday March 28, 2024 @09:36PM (#39859629)
Just a normal program then? No edge cases needed
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