Script to do a character count?

[designmsp]

I was wondering if anyone knows of a script that would cout the number of characters in a text box in an illustrator document?

Thanks so much!

[Muppet_Mark-QAl63s · Accepted solution]

This may do you if you selected the box in question… (It includes white space characters as is)…

alert(app.activeDocument.selection[0].contents.length);

[designmsp]

You are awesome! Thank you so much! That worked perfectly!

Amanda