How To Get The Word Count From A CRichEditCtrl

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Hi,

Can anybody please tell me how to get the word count from A CRichEditCtrl.

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Dev.

Posted 6-Feb-11 19:21pm

Devadutta Achary

Updated 6-Feb-11 21:48pm

Dalek Dave

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Dalek Dave 7-Feb-11 3:48am

Minor Edit for Readability.

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Abhinav S · Answer 1 · 2011-02-06T19:37:00

Solution 1

See this[^] thread - this may help you calculate the word count.

Just get the text from this control and apply this logic.

Posted 6-Feb-11 19:37pm

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Dalek Dave 7-Feb-11 3:49am

Good link

Abhinav S 7-Feb-11 3:51am

Thanks.

Andrew Brock · Answer 2 · 2011-02-06T20:17:00

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If you use the GetWindowText function instead of streaming out of the rich edit control, you will only get the unformatted text so that you wont need to deal with the formatting characters.

Then you just need to find the characters that define a new word.

Posted 6-Feb-11 20:17pm

Andrew Brock

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Dalek Dave 7-Feb-11 3:49am

Good advice.