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Quick and dirty if you don't mind breaking in the middle of words and
being destructive to your source string (copy beforehand otherwise):

my @lines;
push @lines, substr( $str, 0, $max_len, '' ) while $str;


The CPAN way:

<a  rel="nofollow" href="http://search.cpan.org/~dconway/Text-Autoformat-1.12/lib/Text/Autoformat.pm";>http://search.cpan.org/~dconway/Text-Autoformat-1.12/lib/Text/Autoformat.pm</a>



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