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Apple Script to count characters in TextEdit
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Anyone knows how to mak an Apple Script that counts the characters in TextEdit? I have almost no clue how to do this, although I know Apple Script can be very simple to learn... Oh, I'm lazy... 
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Originally posted by andreas_g4:
Anyone knows how to mak an Apple Script that counts the characters in TextEdit? I have almost no clue how to do this, although I know Apple Script can be very simple to learn... Oh, I'm lazy...
Nope, but I do know of a Service that offers this as one of many features:
WordService
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Use "wc" in the terminal to count the number of lines, words, and bytes in a text file.
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tell application "TextEdit"
set theText to the text of the document 1
set theCharCount to the length of the theText
display dialog "The text of the document \"" & (the name of the window 1) & "\" contains " & theCharCount & " characters." buttons {"OK"}
end tell
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This one shouldn't count whitespace:
tell application "TextEdit"
set theText to the text of document 1
set theWordCount to the count of words of theText
set theCharCount to 0
repeat with i from 1 to the theWordCount
set theCharCount to theCharCount + the (length of the word i of theText)
end repeat
display dialog "The text of the document \"" & (the name of the window 1) & ¬
"\" contains " & theWordCount & " words and " & theCharCount & " characters." buttons {"OK"}
end tell
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Nasrudin sat on a river bank when someone shouted to him from the opposite side: "Hey! how do I get across?" "You are across!" Nasrudin shouted back.
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tell original poster
topic is not "Mac OS X"
move topic to "Software"
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wataru, AppleScript is part of the system in my opinion (as is TextEdit).
(Last edited by Developer; Feb 14, 2003 at 02:10 PM.
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... but TextEdit isn't 
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