What about existing line breaks?

Each paragraph is processed independently — existing single line breaks are treated as line ends.

Wrap Lines at N Characters

Reformat text to a fixed line width. Wraps at word boundaries by default; optionally break long words.

Width Break long words

Input Result

Load file

Unix (LF) Dos (CRLF)

How to use Wrap Lines at N Characters

Paste your text.
Set the column width.
Copy the wrapped result.

What is Wrap Lines at N Characters?

Useful for code comments with a column limit, plain-text emails, or formatting output for narrow displays. The default word-aware wrap preserves readability; enabling 'Break long words' guarantees no line exceeds the width.

FAQ

What about existing line breaks?: Each paragraph is processed independently — existing single line breaks are treated as line ends.

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