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The length of the current selection in Eclipse

Do you know any easy way to find out how long the current selection is in Eclipse? those. I select a fragment of a line and would like to know how many characters there are?

I usually count them by hand, but this is stupid. When you despair, I go to the beginning, check the column number, go to the end, check the column number, subtract, think for a minute if I have to add 1 or not ... and my choice will be lost.

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On Windows, Notepad ++ is a good solution. Open a new tab, copy and paste it there, and the document length indicated at the bottom of the window is the number of characters you have.

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Easy way? Copy the text and paste it into the account script, like this site:

http://charcount.com/

(Warning: site background may damage your eyes.)

Eclipse supports the Selection object if you use its API:

http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-WorkbenchSelections/article.html#example

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