Re: Apple Script to Count Text Lines?

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From: Shane_Stanley
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:28

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On 11/10/06 11:02 AM, "Ken Orth" <member@adobeforums.com> wrote:

> I need to count lines of text within a selected text frame up to a selected
> text string, note the count somehow, skip a few empty lines, then repeat the
> process.  

You're going to have to be more specific. Getting the number of lines in a
selection is easy:

 count of lines of selection

Similarly, getting the number of lines up to and including the selection:

    set x to index of insertion point -1 of selection
    count of lines of text from character 1 to character (x - 1) of parent
of selection

But things like "skip a few lines" and "repeat the process" are too vague.

-- 
Shane Stanley <sstanley@myriad-com.com.au>

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