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+require 'rubygems'
+
+##
+# A collection of text-wrangling methods
+
+module Gem::Text
+
+  ##
+  # Wraps +text+ to +wrap+ characters and optionally indents by +indent+
+  # characters
+
+  def format_text(text, wrap, indent=0)
+    result = []
+    work = text.dup
+
+    while work.length > wrap do
+      if work =~ /^(.{0,#{wrap}})[ \n]/ then
+        result << $1
+        work.slice!(0, $&.length)
+      else
+        result << work.slice!(0, wrap)
+      end
+    end
+
+    result << work if work.length.nonzero?
+    result.join("\n").gsub(/^/, " " * indent)
+  end
+
+end
+