[stringtemplate-interest] Wrapping lines of text

[Terence Parr]

yep, something like that, though see if the toString() arg to StringTemplate is visible to the renderer. you can save the parameter.
Ter
On Jan 12, 2010, at 2:48 PM, Nicholas Dunn wrote:

> 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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