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counting blanks

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counting blanks

Postby dgeehot » Tue Aug 17, 2004 3:49 pm

I am looking for an easy way to look at a file in a particular postion and get of counts of how many blanks - Any thoughts or suggestions
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Re: counting blanks

Postby mrainey56 » Tue Aug 17, 2004 5:33 pm

The Word Count feature (Search Menu) shows the number of characters in a file both with and without spaces. Just calculate the difference.
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Re: counting blanks

Postby Mofi » Wed Aug 18, 2004 1:44 am

If you only want the number of spaces and tabs excluding the CR LF, simply use Count All at the find dialog with the regular expression find string [ ^t].
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Re: counting blanks

Postby mrainey56 » Wed Aug 18, 2004 9:07 am

Good one! :D
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