How to split a string into multiple lines of x characters each

[JackJ]

Hi

I want to split a string into multiple lines of 'x' characters without breaking a word. That is, for example, if x = 13, if the 13th character falls in the middle of a word, this word should not be considered for the first line, but must go into the next line.

Example:

If the string is "The quick fox jumped over a lazy dog", and I want to break this into multiple line of 13 characters, it should be like this:

The quick fox
jumped over a
lazy dog

How can I achieve this in java?

Thanks
J

[staykovmarin]

Code:

		String s = "The quick fox jumped over a lazy dog";
		
		char[] sAr = s.toCharArray();
		int start = 0;
                // start with 
		for (int i = 13; i < sAr.length; i++) {
			if (sAr[i] == ' ') {
				System.out.println(s.substring(start, i));
				start = i+1;
				i += 13;
			}
		}
		System.out.println(s.substring(start));

[JackJ]

Hi staykovmarin

Thanks for your help.

Though this works well, the problem in this program is that if the 13th character is not a space, but a word, the word is included in the line which makes the total number of characters in the line greater than 13. My requirement is that it has to be exactly or less than 13 without splitting the word.

Thank you.

[hardwired]

Code:

        String s = //"The quick fox jumped over a lazy dog";
                   "The Java language provides special support for the string " +
                   "concatenation operator ( + ), and for conversion of other " +
                   "objects to strings. String concatenation is implemented " +
                   "through the StringBuilder(or StringBuffer) class and its " +
                   "append method. String conversions are implemented through " +
                   "the method toString, defined by Object and inherited by " +
                   "all classes in Java.";
        int charLimit = 13;
        System.out.println("          111");
        System.out.println("0123456789012");
        System.out.println("-------------");
        char[] chars = s.toCharArray();
        boolean endOfString = false;
        int start = 0;
        int end = start;
        while(start < chars.length-1) {
            int charCount = 0;
            int lastSpace = 0;
            while(charCount < charLimit) {
                if(chars[charCount+start] == ' ') {
                    lastSpace = charCount;
                }
                charCount++;
                if(charCount+start == s.length()) {
                    endOfString = true;
                    break;
                }
            } 
            end = endOfString ? s.length()
                              : (lastSpace > 0) ? lastSpace+start : charCount+start;
            System.out.println(s.substring(start, end));
            start = end+1;
        }