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Count text area characters with space and without white-space using Simple JavaScript

To count the characters typed in textarea, I have a code that can count with space between words. But I want both the functionalities like to count with words with space and without space in Simple JavaScript. Since I am not a programming expert, I…
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Line breaks are counted as 2 characters in a contenteditable div

I have the following code in jQuery that counts the number of characters that have been written in the text box. The problem is that when inserting line breaks the counter subtracts 2 characters instead of `1``. When a new character is written in…
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Regex: Finding space between two strings that is too long

I have an XML file that I am trying to parse into my database, but am getting an error stating a certain field exceeds my max character count (2000). I've identified the field in question, but don't have a row number in my error, so I have to find…
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jQuery + css resizable quotes according to character count

I'm trying to have each span element containing a quote to change font-size according to character count. There can be many quotes per page. I have a jQuery doing the resizing, but since ":nth-of-type" does not apply to classes, the jQuery displays…
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how do I separate a text with a list?

this is my code however it keeps outputting the answer as one while I want it to count the characters in the sentence. #----------------------------- myList = [] characterCount = 0 #----------------------------- Sentence = "hello world" newSentence…
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Trying to count characters after submitting a comment, mb_strlen gives back weird results

In my controller, I access the comment data with $this->request->data['Comment']['text']. I use CakePHP's formhelper to build the form, and a plugin called Summernote to transform the textarea into a WYSIWYG editor. I save the comment as HTML in my…
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Rails: Using Jquery for Text_Area character count

My goal is to put the keycount in a blank 'p' element above a text_area. Here is my erb and javascript:

<%= f.label :essay %>
<%= f.text_area :essay, :id => "essay-form" %>
(This is all I…
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c# richtextbox display character remaining count

Yes, I have already researched this question. I've found this: How to display remaining textbox characters in a label in C#? and many others just like it. That's how I managed to get this following code pieced together: protected void…
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Spotfire: count the number of a certain character in a string

I am trying to add a new calculated column that counts the number of semi colons in a string and adds one to it. So the column i have contains a bunch of aliases and I need to know how many for each row. For example, A; B; C; D So basically this…
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Can't count '|' symbols in a .c file

Basically I have to write a program that counts all kinds of different symbols in a .c file. I got it to work with all of the needed symbols except the vertical line '|'. For some reason it just won't count them. Here's the method I'm using: int…
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Reset character countdown on button click

How can I make my character countdown reset back to 150 when my submit button is clicked? Right now I have a input text box that you type in and it counts down how many characters you have left and then when you want to submit it, you click the…
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Textarea counter / countdown with negative numbers and enforcement

I've been working on adding a character counter to a TEXTAREA field. There are many, many solutions available online for this task. "Stop-at-Zero" Solution The problem I'm having is that practically all solutions terminate user input at 0. That's…
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Rails 4 - Setting character count limit on textarea

I have a description field that I want to limit to 400 characters. Right now I am able to type in the text, the counter works showing [current-count]/400, and I can save and it all works, as long as I'm within the 400 limit. Right now I can also…
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Count characters in string

So I'm trying to count anhCrawler and return the number of characters with and without spaces alone with the position of "DEATH STAR" and return it in theReport. I can't get the numbers to count correctly either. Please help! anhCrawler = """Episode…
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MySQL RLIKE repeating character end position

I have done my due diligence and am still stuck. I have a situation where I need to locate where the last existing same character is in a search string, then check to see what follows that character. I think I need to use RLIKE to do this but maybe…
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