This Line Counter is designed to count the number of lines in a document or text passage. You can type or paste the text into the text area of this online tool. There is an option to take into account or ignore blank lines.
Counting Lines of Text
Our handy Line Counter instantly counts the number of lines of any text. It doesn’t matter if the text consists of words or any sequence of characters. The only important thing is that each line ends with an end-of-line character (\n).
There are many applications for our online tool.
If you are a blogger or writer, you may be interested in accurately counting the number of lines in your text in order to achieve the goal of being informative and well understood.
For example, texts with more lines indicate cognitive and research work. To write an article for a journal, you need to know, among other things, the number of lines in order to add or remove lines as required by the journal.
If you’re a news writer, you can use the line count to keep your news short and to the point. It is no coincidence that news writers like to use short paragraphs. They should concisely present information and keep the reader’s attention.
If you are a student, your teacher may ask you to write a paragraph of a certain length. When writing, use a line counter to have a clear idea of what should and should not be included.
If you are a teacher, you can easily count the lines of your students’ essays or abstracts and grade them accordingly.
Finally, line counting is useful for developers to measure the size of computer code. It is a standard way to analyze the amount of effort required by a developer to create a program. It is also used to analyze the performance of programming or maintenance after the creation of software.
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