wbr every 5 characters in really long string

Question

I have some users put in really long strings in a text area and when it's displayed the formatting is thrown off because there are no spaces. To fix this I want to insert a wbr every 5 spaces that gives the browser the option to break if it needs to. I have it working in javascript and a version working in coldfusion, but the coldfusion version inserts the wbr every other character. Any idea how to insert a wbr every 5 characters with a REReplace()?

Thanks!

GP

javascript:

str = '#really_long_text#';

str = str.replace(/(.{5})/g,'$&<wbr/>');

document.write(str)

</script>

ColdFusion:

again this does it every other character, but I need it every 5 characters

Owainnorth · Accepted Answer

But you're so close! #reReplaceNoCase("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz", '(.{5})', '\1 ', 'all')#O.

Golden_Pelican · Answer

The function works almost perfcet... but in the image below you'll see it will break a word it shouldn't if given the change. (Below, it breaks "make")

Any idea how to check if there is a space coming up in the next 7 characters and if not, put a <wbr>?

Here's the code as it's working:

But it does this to the output where "make" is broken into two words:

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