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diff --git a/Source/Utils/Strings/CMakeLists.txt b/Source/Utils/Strings/CMakeLists.txt
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+++ b/Source/Utils/Strings/CMakeLists.txt
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+target_sources(WarpX
+  PRIVATE
+    StringUtils.cpp
+)
diff --git a/Source/Utils/Strings/Make.package b/Source/Utils/Strings/Make.package
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+++ b/Source/Utils/Strings/Make.package
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+CEXE_sources += StringUtils.cpp
+
+VPATH_LOCATIONS   += $(WARPX_HOME)/Source/Utils/Strings
diff --git a/Source/Utils/Strings/StringUtils.H b/Source/Utils/Strings/StringUtils.H
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+++ b/Source/Utils/Strings/StringUtils.H
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+/* Copyright 2022 Andrew Myers, Luca Fedeli, Maxence Thevenet
+ * Revathi Jambunathan
+ *
+ * This file is part of WarpX.
+ *
+ * License: BSD-3-Clause-LBNL
+ */
+
+#ifndef WARPX_UTILS_STRINGS_STRINGUTILS_H_
+#define WARPX_UTILS_STRINGS_STRINGUTILS_H_
+
+#include <AMReX_Utility.H>
+
+#include <string>
+#include <vector>
+
+namespace utils::strings
+{
+    /** \brief Splits a string using a string separator. This is somewhat similar to
+     *  amrex::Tokenize. The main difference is that, if the separator ":" is used,
+     *  amrex::Tokenize will split ":3::2" into ["3","2"] while this functio will
+     *  split ":3::2" into ["","3","","2"]. This function can also perform a trimming to
+     *  remove whitespaces (or any other arbitrary string) from the split string.
+     *
+     * @tparam Container the type of the split string.
+     *
+     * @param[in] instr the input string
+     * @param[in] separator the separator string
+     * @param[in] trim true to trim the split string, false otherwise.
+     * @param[in] trim_space the string to trim if trim is true.
+     * @return cont the split string
+     */
+    template <typename Container>
+    auto split (std::string const& instr, std::string const& separator,
+                  bool const trim = false, std::string const& trim_space = " \t")
+    {
+        Container cont;
+        std::size_t current = instr.find(separator);
+        std::size_t previous = 0;
+        while (current != std::string::npos) {
+            if (trim){
+                cont.push_back(amrex::trim(instr.substr(previous, current - previous),trim_space));}
+            else{
+                cont.push_back(instr.substr(previous, current - previous));}
+            previous = current + separator.size();
+            current = instr.find(separator, previous);
+        }
+        if (trim){
+            cont.push_back(amrex::trim(instr.substr(previous, current - previous),trim_space));}
+        else{
+            cont.push_back(instr.substr(previous, current - previous));}
+        return cont;
+    }
+
+    /** \brief This function performs automatic text wrapping on a string,
+     *  returning an array of strings each not exceeding the maximum line length
+     *  (unless the text contains a word exceeding the maximum line length).
+     *
+     * @param[in] text the string containing the text to be wrapped
+     * @param[in] max_line_length the maximum line length
+     * @return an std::vector containing the lines of the wrapped text
+     */
+    std::vector<std::string> automatic_text_wrap(
+        const std::string& text, const int max_line_length);
+
+}
+
+#endif //WARPX_UTILS_STRINGS_STRINGUTILS_H_
diff --git a/Source/Utils/Strings/StringUtils.cpp b/Source/Utils/Strings/StringUtils.cpp
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+++ b/Source/Utils/Strings/StringUtils.cpp
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+/* Copyright 2022 Andrew Myers, Luca Fedeli, Maxence Thevenet
+ * Revathi Jambunathan
+ *
+ * This file is part of WarpX.
+ *
+ * License: BSD-3-Clause-LBNL
+ */
+
+#include "StringUtils.H"
+
+#include <sstream>
+
+std::vector<std::string> automatic_text_wrap(
+    const std::string& text, const int max_line_length){
+
+    auto ss_text = std::stringstream{text};
+    auto wrapped_text_lines = std::vector<std::string>{};
+
+    std::string line;
+    while(std::getline(ss_text, line,'\n')){
+
+        auto ss_line = std::stringstream{line};
+        int counter = 0;
+        std::stringstream ss_line_out;
+        std::string word;
+
+        while (ss_line >> word){
+            const auto wlen = static_cast<int>(word.length());
+
+            if(counter == 0){
+                ss_line_out << word;
+                counter += wlen;
+            }
+            else{
+                if (counter + wlen < max_line_length){
+                    ss_line_out << " " << word;
+                    counter += (wlen+1);
+                }
+                else{
+                    wrapped_text_lines.push_back(ss_line_out.str());
+                    ss_line_out = std::stringstream{word};
+                    counter = wlen;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        wrapped_text_lines.push_back(ss_line_out.str());
+    }
+
+    return wrapped_text_lines;
+}