Java’s thirtieth birthday arrives amid the clamour surrounding generative AI, a technology already capable of drafting voluminous, enterprise-level code from a single prompt. For newcomers it can seem ...

Counting words and characters in text files is straightforward, but what if you need to do the same with PDF files? PDFs are widely used for sharing documents because they maintain formatting across ...

We show you how to find the word count on Microsoft Word, as well as how to count characters, for your entire document and specific paragraphs.

Finding the number of lines, words, characters, and more in a file is mostly straightforward on Linux. Most, if not all, Linux distros come with built-in commands to display the various properties in ...

In yet another important upgrade, Notepad in Microsoft Windows 11 is now able to count characters as we type, similar to what is seen in Microsoft Word.

Notepad now has a built-in character counter as of version 11.2311.29.0, which is now accessible to Insiders in the Canary and Dev Channels. For users who need to quickly count characters in a text ...

Microsoft keeps improving and adding more features to the Windows 11 Notepad application, the latest being a built-in character counter.

File counting in a directory is a common task that many users might need to perform. It could be for administrative purposes, understanding disk usage, or organizing files in a systematic manner.

In my setup, someone (accidently) created a branch with an umlaut (ö). Even without checking out this branch, the extension fails immediately with the following error: ...

A series of commands ranging from simple to fairly complex will help you count lines, words or individual characters on the Linux command line.