From 5b2461c713889b9832f5b99c85abf87e5d494242 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: sfan5 <sfan5@live.de>
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 16:25:20 +0200
Subject: Fix core.wrap_text and make its behaviour consistent with the docs

Code based on initial implementation by @dsohler.
---
 builtin/common/misc_helpers.lua | 66 ++++++++++-------------------------------
 builtin/mainmenu/common.lua     |  2 +-
 builtin/mainmenu/tab_mods.lua   |  2 +-
 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)

(limited to 'builtin')

diff --git a/builtin/common/misc_helpers.lua b/builtin/common/misc_helpers.lua
index 0bdd4b02a..4840dcbaa 100644
--- a/builtin/common/misc_helpers.lua
+++ b/builtin/common/misc_helpers.lua
@@ -308,59 +308,25 @@ function core.formspec_escape(text)
 end
 
 
-function core.wrap_text(text, charlimit)
-	local retval = {}
-
-	local current_idx = 1
-
-	local start,stop = string_find(text, " ", current_idx)
-	local nl_start,nl_stop = string_find(text, "\n", current_idx)
-	local gotnewline = false
-	if nl_start ~= nil and (start == nil or nl_start < start) then
-		start = nl_start
-		stop = nl_stop
-		gotnewline = true
-	end
-	local last_line = ""
-	while start ~= nil do
-		if string.len(last_line) + (stop-start) > charlimit then
-			retval[#retval + 1] = last_line
-			last_line = ""
+function core.wrap_text(text, max_length, as_table)
+	local result = {}
+	local line = {}
+	if #text <= max_length then
+		return as_table and {text} or text
+	end
+
+	for word in text:gmatch('%S+') do
+		local cur_length = #table.concat(line, ' ')
+		if cur_length > 0 and cur_length + #word + 1 >= max_length then
+			-- word wouldn't fit on current line, move to next line
+			table.insert(result, table.concat(line, ' '))
+			line = {}
 		end
-
-		if last_line ~= "" then
-			last_line = last_line .. " "
-		end
-
-		last_line = last_line .. string_sub(text, current_idx, stop - 1)
-
-		if gotnewline then
-			retval[#retval + 1] = last_line
-			last_line = ""
-			gotnewline = false
-		end
-		current_idx = stop+1
-
-		start,stop = string_find(text, " ", current_idx)
-		nl_start,nl_stop = string_find(text, "\n", current_idx)
-
-		if nl_start ~= nil and (start == nil or nl_start < start) then
-			start = nl_start
-			stop = nl_stop
-			gotnewline = true
-		end
-	end
-
-	--add last part of text
-	if string.len(last_line) + (string.len(text) - current_idx) > charlimit then
-			retval[#retval + 1] = last_line
-			retval[#retval + 1] = string_sub(text, current_idx)
-	else
-		last_line = last_line .. " " .. string_sub(text, current_idx)
-		retval[#retval + 1] = last_line
+		table.insert(line, word)
 	end
 
-	return retval
+	table.insert(result, table.concat(line, ' '))
+	return as_table and result or table.concat(result, '\n')
 end
 
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/builtin/mainmenu/common.lua b/builtin/mainmenu/common.lua
index fa7ae583b..7eb941775 100644
--- a/builtin/mainmenu/common.lua
+++ b/builtin/mainmenu/common.lua
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ end
 
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 function text2textlist(xpos, ypos, width, height, tl_name, textlen, text, transparency)
-	local textlines = core.wrap_text(text, textlen)
+	local textlines = core.wrap_text(text, textlen, true)
 	local retval = "textlist[" .. xpos .. "," .. ypos .. ";" .. width ..
 			"," .. height .. ";" .. tl_name .. ";"
 
diff --git a/builtin/mainmenu/tab_mods.lua b/builtin/mainmenu/tab_mods.lua
index 9510a9e18..7f95355a9 100644
--- a/builtin/mainmenu/tab_mods.lua
+++ b/builtin/mainmenu/tab_mods.lua
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ local function get_formspec(tabview, name, tabdata)
 		if error == nil then
 			local descriptiontext = descriptionfile:read("*all")
 
-			descriptionlines = core.wrap_text(descriptiontext, 42)
+			descriptionlines = core.wrap_text(descriptiontext, 42, true)
 			descriptionfile:close()
 		else
 			descriptionlines = {}
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