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I find it amazing that they actually got the correct answer. How on earth did they guess that?

The guesser comments that they have written word-wrap code before many times, and recognised the problem from experience.

Which reaffirms what I've been saying for a while: Plenty of programming prowess is creative pattern matching.

> How on earth did they guess that?

By acting quickly before 5 other power user close the question, of course.

That answerer[1] was also one of the close-voters[2]...

answer it, then vote to close it, makes it exclusively the only answer.

Gamification and gaming the system at it's best.