Hello, I am very much a newbie to Filemaker. I am wondering how to create a script that counts characters. I need to be able to type or copy & paste data into a form-like window and count letters and spaces and then output the total amount of characters. Any ideas where to get started? I really appreciate the help.

you dont need to create sctript to do that. creating a calculation field can counts characters in a field.

Thank goodness. I appreciate your feedback. I have been using Filemaker for about 2 days now. I could really use some good tutorials or something. I have written a similar script using js but obviously it wouldnt work in this situation. Hopefully it will be pretty self explanitory to set that up--a calculation field. Any quick tips would be helpful, as I havent even messed with calcualtions in Filemaker thus far.

Set up a calculated field.

simple calculation: Length(Fieldname)

HTH

gotcha, thank you....I played with it enough to figure it out, even without reading the post, which is making me like Filemaker alot. I am not a database programmer by any means, my boss just asked me to build him a database. So far, the project I'm working on is working out very well and a total newbie like myself has been able to get it going. Gota give credit to Filemaker for making such cool software. I honestly hope I get to do more stuff with it, even after this project is done.