Line Counts

mwiseman · Post by **mwiseman** » 2008-03-11 17:40:49

Can anyone suggest a way to count lines? Counting "\n" occurrences would do. I'm looking to get this number into a "$variable"

Thanks

gemboy27 · Post by **gemboy27** » 2008-03-11 20:59:41

if you do a find all of '\n'

it will highlight all new lines and then in the finder window list all the \n that were found

It seems like an applescript should work to, but I am just learning that...

...and not that fast

mwiseman · Post by **mwiseman** » 2008-03-13 08:37:59

Great suggestion... I can view the count in statistics or capture it to a variable in a macro. Thanks.

Post by **martin** » 2008-03-13 12:04:17

The Find macro command returns the number of occurrences that matched, so it should be as simple as:

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$newlineCount = Find All "\n"