charactercount

Reliably getting a character count for .doc files

What's a reliable way to automatically count the characters and/or words in a .doc or .docx file? The only real requirement is a reasonably accurate and reasonably reliable count. It needs to work with documents containing something other than Latin script, so counting characters is good enough for most cases. The count does not necessa...

Getting character count of EditText

Hi all, I'm trying to get a character count of an EditText. I've looked into different properties of the EditText and TextView classes, but there doesn't seem to be a function that returns the amount of characters. I have tried to use the TextWatcher, but that is not ideal since sometimes I load a saved message into the EditText from th...

measure length of edittext string dynamically in android

Hi, How can i measure length of string entered in the edittext while typing.Because i want to show a warning when the entered text length cross 100 character. Thanks in advance. ...

How can I count characters in Perl?

I have the following Perl script counting the number of Fs and Ts in a string: my $str = "GGGFFEEIIEETTGGG"; my $ft_count = 0; $ft_count++ while($str =~ m/[FT]/g); print "$ft_count\n"; Is there a more concise way to get the count (in other words, to combine line 2 and 3)? ...