RegEX help please?

[Evan]

I want to go through a scalar and every 35 character put a <br> in the string.

Id like to do this with a regex, but im not sure how..


any ideas?

[Acidic]

why with regexp?
what do you mean by scalar? a string?

[visualAd]

1. Which language? - some languages have functions which do this.
2. Why regular expressions?
3. What kind of characters do you want to match (if any). I.e. letters and numbers, any character, just numbers???

[Acidic]

str = "this is a very long string which will have br's stuck in it, possibly in wierd places but who gives a rat's arse about that little detail. Well, we'll see if this untested code will work, I sure hope so"
for (i=35;i<str.length;i=i+35)
  {
  str=str.substring(0,i)+"<br>"+str.substring(i+1,str.length)
  }

document.write(str)

doesn't use reg exp though

[Evan]

html =)

Found out how..


<div style="position:absolute;width:400"> Text here </div>


That will word wrap it without coding anything =-)