Re: How to get characters count of a string type variable?

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From: Andreas_Jansson
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2006 08:50

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This is however no InDesign question, just javascript. Did you in fact look for the number of character in a paragraph or somthing...? Try the .length property of the object in that case as well.

Andreas

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