How to break TextArea text into lines

Hi, I am having this problem with TEXTAREA text that I can't find an easy solution to. I tried different settings for the WRAP attribute. With WRAP="PHYSICAL", the form wraps the text with appropriate line breaks (no long continuous line). However, when the form is sent back to my form handler, no information about those line breaks are transmitted. (Please note that I don't expect the users to enter any line breaks. Users are expected to enter one long paragraph.) Now, my form handler has to figure out a way to break these long text lines into presentable lines (e.g. max of 70 columns each). I can't do that in any easy way because TEXTAREA doesn't pass me any information about reasonable line breaks. So, it seems like my only option is to write a method that would take this text and attempt at breaking them at whitespaces. I would really appreciate if someone has written a similar method and would like to share it with me. Thank you very much for your assistance. -- anas mughal P.S. Sorry about the length of this message.