How can I count the amount of lines in a text field? And is there a way to get a live update of the line count while typing in the field without it slowing down or interrupting the typing? 

What exactly does "line" mean here? If it's a paragraph (a line terminated by a carriage return), then you can use the ValueCount() function. If it's the number of lines created by Filemaker automatically by breaking lines to fit the field's width, then it gets much more difficult if not downright impossible. Why do you need this?

3 hours ago, comment said:

What exactly does "line" mean here? If it's a paragraph (a line terminated by a carriage return), then you can use the ValueCount() function. If it's the number of lines created by Filemaker automatically by breaking lines to fit the field's width, then it gets much more difficult if not downright impossible. Why do you need this?

It’s a the amount of paragraphs, I need to know this for a story writing program that uses this to keep track of the amount of steps written for a story section. Every step is finished with a carriage return. 

A paragraph can contain soft returns (linefeeds), where a sentence within a paragraph starts on a newline, while still being part of the paragraph. Paragraphs generally end with a hard return or paragraph return (wikipedia). HTML for instance wraps text in the <p>...</p> tag indicating a paragraph. 

This might help: 

TO count paragraphs using valuecount, you'd first need to replace all the char(10)'s with something else (a space would do) and then use valuecount to calculate the lines.

Edited May 4, 20196 yr by OlgerDiekstra