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InsertLinebreaks["string"]

inserts newline characters into string to make a string in which no line is longer than 78 characters.

InsertLinebreaks["string",n]

inserts newline characters to make no line longer than n characters.

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InsertLinebreaks

InsertLinebreaks["string"]

inserts newline characters into string to make a string in which no line is longer than 78 characters.

InsertLinebreaks["string",n]

inserts newline characters to make no line longer than n characters.

Details

  • InsertLinebreaks works by replacing whitespace with newline characters.
  • If a single span of non-whitespace characters is longer than n characters, newlines will be inserted every n characters within the span.

Examples

Basic Examples  (1)

Insert newlines to ensure no line is longer than 30 characters:

Words longer than 30 characters will be broken:

Wolfram Research (2015), InsertLinebreaks, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/InsertLinebreaks.html.

Text

Wolfram Research (2015), InsertLinebreaks, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/InsertLinebreaks.html.

CMS

Wolfram Language. 2015. "InsertLinebreaks." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/InsertLinebreaks.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (2015). InsertLinebreaks. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/InsertLinebreaks.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_insertlinebreaks, author="Wolfram Research", title="{InsertLinebreaks}", year="2015", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/InsertLinebreaks.html}", note=[Accessed: 15-August-2025]}

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@online{reference.wolfram_2025_insertlinebreaks, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={InsertLinebreaks}, year={2015}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/InsertLinebreaks.html}, note=[Accessed: 15-August-2025]}