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Counting Characters/words in a Text box

Hi Guys,

I am trying to produce a "real-time" count of characters or words in a text box as the user types.
I think counting the words will be too tricky but if there is a way of counting the characters in a label say (rather than another textbox), that would be great.
If possible real-time would be great, otherwise there could be a button?

Any help would be great.

Many Thanks

toddhd

dim Count() as string = split(myTextBox.String)
lblWordCount.Text = Ctype(UBound(Count),String)

toddhd

Not sure if I wrote that 100%, but my idea is just to do a Split() on the value of the textbox, which would give you an array of values - one array item for each word in the textbox. Then you can simply send the length of the array to a label or whatever you like.

toddhd

You could also use regluar expressions and a match count.

toddhd

FWIW, many programs don't consider some words, such as "a", the", "and", "as", etc. to be "words" in a word count. Using the array method, you might want to loop through the array, and delete any instances of "common words".

Also, I forgot to mention that you should simply wrap the code above in the TextChanged event of the textbox.

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kvnsdr

Could someone interpret this into C# please?

Private Sub TextBox1_TextChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles TextBox1.TextChanged
Dim Count() As String = Split(TextBox1.Text)
Label1.Text = "Count = " & UBound(Count).ToString
End Sub

toddhd

Private Void TextBox1_TextChanged(System.Object sender, System.EventArgs e) Handles TextBox1.TextChanged
{
String Count() = Split(TextBox1.Text);
Label1.Text = "Count = " + UBound(Count).ToString;
}

I'm not really a C# coder, but it would be something similar to that....