[Solved]*regex Help Request...

[Brutal 164]

Trying to figure this out and hope for some help.

lets say i have a sentence/string that has 461 characters in it... and i want to break that down into multiple 40 character strings (like if you were posting in twitter).

I used regext to achieve that part with no trouble at all... Here's where i'm having trouble.

Example: The following is a 40 character string...

software and information that you need i

The "i" on the end of that string is actually the first letter of the next word, so what i need is to end the string on the last space (empty space) before the 40th character.

This way, my string broken down into 40's (or a little less) will retain its intended structure.

I'm ok with regex but no pro at it, so if there is a regex guru here, I would deeply appreciate some help.

[Marani 80]

Try this regex:

^.{1,40}\s

[Brutal 164]

thanks - that just gets the first 40 instead of each set in the string

[Marani 80]

I'm not sure if you can do that with regex to get sets.

[Brutal 164]

yeah, you can, thats how i had it set originally.... no worries, i appreciate that you tried to help man.

[Brutal 164]

Solution: Not perfect, but close enough for what I needed:

(?s)\G.{40,}?\b