[TxMt] Re: quick way to find longest line in file?

[Bill Paxton]

Excellent suggestions -- thanks to both of you.

Turns out that I somehow got long sections of trailing blanks in several lines, and that's why a visual scan didn't show the location.

I'm sure there must be a way to delete trailing blanks from all lines -- could you tell me how or point me to the relevant information.

Thanks again,
Bill




On Jan 28, 2016, at 4:33 PM, Matt Neuburg wrote:

> Why not simply do a Find in the document for a regular expression of this sort:
> 
> ^.{100,}
> 
> ...that is to say, "a line longer than 100 characters"? For 100, substitute any number you think might be exceeded by just this one excessive line. m.
> 
On Jan 28, 2016, at 4:14 PM, Hans-Jörg Bibiko wrote:

> 
> Hi Bill,
> 
> it's fast written ;) - and if you don't have more than 999999999 lines in your document:
> 
> 
> 
> Create a new Command; input: selection or text; output: discard
> 
> Command:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> open txmt://open?line=`nl -nrz -w9 -b a|awk '{print length, $0}'|sort -nr|head -1|awk '{print $2}'`
> 
> 
> 
> 
> This command will locate the caret at the beginning of the longest line in the current document.
> 
> Cheers, Hans
> 
> 
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