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Posted: **Mon May 05, 2008 10:49 am**

Hi, I'm trying to create a button that will count the number of characters, like a word count but a character count instead.

This is the code I have come up with but seems to come up with a random string of numbers:

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on mouseUp
  local tNumber, tNumOutput
  put field "Text" into tNumber
  repeat for each char theChar in tNumber
  put chartonum(theChar) after tNumOutput
end repeat
put tNumOutput into field "Count"
end mouseUp

Where've I gone wrong?

Thanks
Omar

Posted: **Mon May 05, 2008 11:32 am**

Hi Omar,

chartonum(the character) = the ASCII number of that character!

You need a simple

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on mouseup
  put the number of chars of fld "Text" into fld "Count"
end mouseup

That's it

Best

Klaus

Posted: **Mon May 05, 2008 11:38 am**

Thanks Klaus

Perfect

Omar

Posted: **Mon May 05, 2008 12:23 pm**

there's another possibility:

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put the length of field "someField" into someVar

Posted: **Mon May 05, 2008 12:48 pm**

Hi,
That works too.

Thanks for the replies.

Omar

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Counting number of characters

Counting number of characters