I don't want it to delete the rest or anything but just to quickly report the number of lines the text I just entered is included.
How can I quickly find "the number of lines in this text that include the string I just entered"?
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In notepad, you can type Ctrl+g to view current line number.
It also at bottom-right corner of status-bar.
This can be done natively in Windows, using the command prompt:
find /c "string to find" "mytextfile.txt"findstr is more advanced (supports regex) but doesn't support printing line count. You could pipe its output to find:
findstr "string to find" "mytextfile.txt" | find /c /v ""find /c /v means count lines not containing. From testing, the empty string to find ("") never actually occurs in the piped input from findstr, so its a safe value to use.
I found the best option was a cat text |grep text|wc -l with an msys installation.
2If you copy and paste the text into word you can see the Words, Characters (with and without spaces), Paragraphs and Lines by clicking on the bottom left where it shows the word count preview.
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