On Tuesday, November 28, 2006 11:39 PM [GMT+1=CET], Harold Fuchs
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tuesday, November 28, 2006 10:12 PM [GMT+1=CET], Peter Boholdt
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I often need to know the exact numbers of characters excluding spaces
in a Writer document. It seems that the properties window only shows
the number including spaces.
Is there a way to establish the number of characters without spaces?
Thank you.
Regards,
Peter Boholdt
Use regular expressions to replace characters that are not spaces with
themselves. Using "replace all" will give you the count you need.
Using REs, a non-space is represented by "[^ ]" (literally "character
class not-space") and "itself" is represened by "&" (no quotes in
either case).
Note that things that look like spaces - tabs, blank lines, special
formatting etc. are *not* included.
Harold Fuchs
London, England
Or just replace all spaces wth spaces. The "replace all" will count the
spaces which you can then subtract from the total number of characters.
Harold Fuchs
London, England
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