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**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [June 22, 2008, 2:36am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/counting-line-breaks-in-htmltext/264012 "2008-06-22T02:36:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:**  [@Pherank](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Pherank)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 2:36am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/counting-line-breaks-in-htmltext/264012/1 "2008-06-22T02:36:26Z")
Is there any way to count line breaks within htmlText? It doesn’t look like using
```auto
indexOf("
");
```
will work because the renderer has already created the textfield display by the time this code would run. So there wouldn’t be any tags to find, just rendered text.
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**Author:**  [@McGuffin](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/McGuffin)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 2:58am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/counting-line-breaks-in-htmltext/264012/2 "2008-06-22T02:58:46Z")
Flash really falls on its \*\*\* when it comes to this… storing the HTML in a variable beforehand and querying that is probably the best way.
```auto
var str:String = "Here is some
test text
to check for
linebreaks";
test.htmlText = str;
trace(test.htmlText.indexOf("
")); // -1 = not present
trace(test.text.indexOf("
")); // -1 = not present
trace(str.indexOf("
")); // 13 = present
```
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**Author:**  [@TheCanadian](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/TheCanadian)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 6:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/counting-line-breaks-in-htmltext/264012/3 "2008-06-22T06:38:32Z")
You could also do:
```auto
escape(t.text).indexOf("%0D");
```
To count the breaks, I would use the String.split method and use the length of the returned array minus 1:
```auto
escape(t.text).split("%0D").length - 1
```
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**Author:**  [@Pherank](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Pherank)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 10:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/counting-line-breaks-in-htmltext/264012/4 "2008-06-22T22:04:21Z")
Thanks all for the replies.
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**Author:**  [@McGuffin](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/McGuffin)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 10:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/counting-line-breaks-in-htmltext/264012/5 "2008-06-22T22:25:57Z")
[QUOTE=TheCanadian;2347013]You could also do:
```auto
escape(t.text).indexOf("%0D");
```
To count the breaks, I would use the String.split method and use the length of the returned array minus 1:
```auto
escape(t.text).split("%0D").length - 1
```
[/QUOTE]
Good stuff, I knew there had to be a way to get at it.
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**Author:**  [@TheCanadian](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/TheCanadian)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2008, 10:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/counting-line-breaks-in-htmltext/264012/6 "2008-06-22T22:32:31Z")
Glad to help :hoser: