Get the line number in Edit control

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how can you get the current line number in a multi-line edit control?

Doesn't really matter - he said "winapi" in his tags. While it would be easier to do in C#... :-) — Thorsten Dittmar, Feb 16 '10 at 12:37

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 16 '10 at 12:38

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From the docs for EM_LINEFROMCHAR, if you pass -1 as wParam, you get the line number of the line containing the caret (or the start of the selection if there is one).

answered Feb 16 '10 at 12:38

AakashM

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 16 '10 at 12:36

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Look at the EM_LINEFROMCHAR window message.

answered Feb 16 '10 at 12:36

Thorsten Dittmar

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 16 '10 at 12:46

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Did you try checking the MSDN index for anything beginning with EM_*. If you did, you'd find EM_LINEFROMCHAR, EM_LINEINDEX, EM_LINELENGTH, etc, which can probably solve your problem

answered Feb 16 '10 at 12:46

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Get the line number in Edit control

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