attempt to reformat logbook entries.. fail. Too many side efefcts.

core/utils.py

@@ -124,6 +124,56 @@ def alphabet_suffix(n):
         suffix = "_X_" + random.choice(string.ascii_lowercase) + random.choice(string.ascii_lowercase)
     return suffix   
 
+def wrap_text(text):
+    """
+    Splits a long string into multiple lines, ensuring that each line is no more than
+    70 characters long. Newline characters are inserted immediately before spaces to
+    prevent breaking words.
+
+    Parameters:
+    text (str): The input string that needs to be wrapped.
+
+    Returns:
+    str: The input string formatted with newline characters such that each line
+         does not exceed 70 characters in length.
+
+    Functionality:
+    1. The function first splits the input string into individual words.
+    2. It iterates through the words and adds them to the current line, ensuring the
+       line's length does not exceed 70 characters.
+    3. If adding a word would cause the line to exceed the limit, the current line is
+       added to a list of lines, and a new line is started with the word.
+    4. The process repeats until all words are processed, and the final line is added.
+    5. The list of lines is then joined with newline characters and returned as a
+       single formatted string.
+       
+    This function written by CoPilot.
+    BUT interactions between exisitng \n characters makes this much less simple than it appears.
+    """
+
+    return text # abort all wrap processing pending proper redesign
+    
+    words = text.split(' ')
+    lines = []
+    current_line = ""
+
+    for word in words:
+        # Check if adding the word exceeds 70 characters
+        if len(current_line) + len(word) + 1 <= 70:
+            if current_line:
+                current_line += ' '
+            current_line += word
+        else:
+            lines.append(current_line.strip(' '))
+            current_line = word
+
+    # Add the last line
+    if current_line:
+        lines.append(current_line.strip(' '))
+
+    # Join the lines with newline characters
+    return '\n'.join(lines)
+    
 def make_new_expo(year):
         coUniqueAttribs = {"year": year}
         otherAttribs = {"name": f"CUCC expo {year}", "logbookfile": "logbook.html"}