spliting a line after a set character length 1

[wnoland]

I have a file that has line characters lengths of varable sizes. What I need to do is if a line has more than 240 characters. Take that line split it at the next comma and take the rest of the line and make a newline,and if that line exceeds 240 characters split it in the same manner.

Thanks wnoland

 

[CaKiwi]

This should do it.

{
if (length > 240) {
for (i=240;i<length-1;i++) {
if (substr($0,i,1) == &quot;,&quot {
print substr($0,1,i)
print substr($0,i+1)
break
}
}
if (i>length-2) print
}
else
print
}

Hope this helps.

CaKiwi

&quot;Cheer up&quot; they said, &quot;Things could be worse&quot;. So we did and they are.

 

[CaKiwi]

This is slightlty better.

{
if (length > 240) {
for (i=240;i<length;i++) {
if (substr($0,i,1) == &quot;,&quot {
print substr($0,1,i)
print substr($0,i+1)
next
}
}
print
}
else
print
}

CaKiwi

 

[wnoland]

Thank ,CaKiwi
This worked the way I wanted it to.

wnoland