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Build a service to count characters, words and paragraphs
"Apple does not provide any way to count the number of characters in a selected text." As any UNIX geek knows, this is simply not true. Launch Terminal and type "man wc".
Build a service to count characters, words and paragraphs
wc only works with text files. This service works on selected text in any application. ---
Mac OS X Hints editor - Macworld senior contributor http://www.mcelhearn.com
Build a service to count characters, words and paragraphs
This is true, but the statement that Apple does not provide "any way" to count text in a file is still false.
Build a service to count characters, words and paragraphs
They don't provide "any way" to count text in all kinds of files. Sorry, no need to pick nits. If you work with .txt files, that's fine, but most people do use other formats too. ---
Mac OS X Hints editor - Macworld senior contributor http://www.mcelhearn.com
Build a service to count characters, words and paragraphs
Here's what I do when I want to count something that isn't in a text file:
This prints out lines / words / characters of the selected text. |
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