[stringtemplate-interest] Wrapping lines of text

[Nicholas Dunn]

Hi folks,

I'm writing some templates to generate source code.  Here's part of the
template in question:

/**
$description$
$if(author)$
@author $author$
$endif$
*/

Now, $description$ is an arbitrarily long String.  What is the best way to
get $description$ to return the $description$ field formatted to an
arbitrary number of characters per line?  Is using a custom format renderer
the best way?  e.g. something like

$description; format="fixedWidth,80"$

and then define a case statement in an AttributeRenderer that handles this:

public String toString(Object o, String formatName)   {
    if (formatName.startsWith("
fixedWidth,")) {
        // Return a String broken up with new lines at or about the number
of chars passed in.
    }
}

Is there a better way to do this?

Thanks

-- 
Nicholas Dunn
(207) 651-9839
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