[Tex/LaTex] Auto line break with very long word within table

line-breakingnumberingtables

I am trying to break a very very long number, 128 in length, to fit into a table cell so it won't go over the page.

I've looked up methods using longtabu, tabular with p{5cm} commend, \makecell, \parbox{}, \multicolumn with p{5cm}, but non of those works. It seems like they only line break at "space" but does not line break one whole word, in my case is number.

I know it is possible to manually break line with \\ or \newline, but this doesn't seem practical in the long-run as I need to manually change this as the format of my document may change depending on the requirements given to me.

The only way I have in mind now, is to screenshot the long numbers into a figure, and insert it into the table. But if there is a better solution, I would like to use it.

Code that I use to longtabu attempt

\begin{longtabu} to \textwidth {
    |X[1,c]
    |X[10,l]|}
    \hline
    \textbf{Head 1} & 
    \textbf{Head 2} 
    \\ \hline
    12:18:52  & this is a description for the event \\\hline
    12:18:52  & this is a description for the event \\\hline
    12:18:52  & this is a description for the event this is a description for the event this is a description for the event this is a description for the event this is a description for the event this is a description for the event this is a description for the event this is a description for the event this is a description for the event this is a description for the event this is a description for the event this is a description for the event this is a description for the event this is a description for the event this is a description for the event this is a description for the event this is a description for the event this is a description for the event \\\hline
    12:18:52  & 11111111111111111111111111111111111111222222222222222222222222222222222222222223333333333333333333333333333333333344444444444444444444455555555555555555555555555555555666666666666666666666666666777777777777777777777778888888888888888\\\hline
\end{longtabu}

Using p{}

\begin{tabular}{|p{1cm}|p{5cm}|}
  This text will be wrapped & Some more text \\\hline
  this & 11111111111111111111111111111111111111222222222222222222222222222222222222222223333333333333333333333333333333333344444444444444444444455555555555555555555555555555555666666666666666666666666666777777777777777777777778888888888888888\\\hline
\end{tabular}


Herbert solution at Break long word in tabular

Best Answer

You could load the xurl package and encase the long number in a \url{...} "wrapper".

(The following code uses a tabularx environment since I'm not familiar with longtabu.)

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularx,xurl}
\urlstyle{same}
\begin{document} 
\noindent
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{@{} lX @{}}
\hline
\textbf{Head 1} & \textbf{Head 2} \\ 
\hline
12:18:52  & this is a description for the event \\
\hline
12:18:52  &
\url{11111111111111111111111111111111111111222222222222222222222222222222222222222223333333333333333333333333333333333344444444444444444444455555555555555555555555555555555666666666666666666666666666777777777777777777777778888888888888888}\\
\hline
\end{tabularx}
\end{document}
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