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    WSAlStewart
    AskWoody Lounger
    April 2, 2010 at 5:12 pm #467910

    Hi. What I’m looking for sounds simple, but I’m stumped. I need a simple text editor that counts characters on a line (or in total) instead of inches. Mono spaced font of course. Anyone have any ideas? I’ve download about a dozen to try, and not one seems to do this. — Al

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    • WScafed00d
      AskWoody Lounger
      April 2, 2010 at 6:34 pm #1216710

      Do you consider spaces to be characters? What about tabs? What about the carriage-return/line-feed characters at the end of a line?

      Notepad++ give character counts for the current selection and for the entire file. It includes tab characters and spaces, but not carriage-return/line-feeds.

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    • WSwindmaker
      AskWoody Lounger
      April 4, 2010 at 8:22 pm #1216881

      The one program I know will count characters, spaces and edit is Office.
      I use it to practice my speed WPM. Of course you have to buy it. $200.

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    • T J Morrison
      AskWoody Plus
      April 5, 2010 at 10:15 am #1216948

      PSPad (http://www.pspad.com/en/) probably has too many features to rate as “simple”, but it counts characters… choose File Info from the File menu.

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    • WSAlStewart
      AskWoody Lounger
      April 8, 2010 at 9:12 am #1217322

      Thanks for the suggestions. I’ll check them out, and see which works best for what I need. I did manage to track down another one … Crimson Editor.

      Al

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