CEdit::GetLineCount
Call this function to retrieve the number of lines in a multiple-line edit control.
int GetLineCount( ) const;
Return Value
An integer containing the number of lines in the multiple-line edit control. If no text has been entered into the edit control, the return value is 1.
Remarks
GetLineCount is only processed by multiple-line edit controls.
For more information, see EM_GETLINECOUNT in the Windows SDK.
Example
int i, nLineCount = m_myEdit.GetLineCount();
CString strText, strLine;
// Dump every line of text of the edit control.
for (i=0; i < nLineCount; i++)
{
// length of line i:
int len = m_myEdit.LineLength(m_myEdit.LineIndex(i));
m_myEdit.GetLine(i, strText.GetBuffer(len), len);
strText.ReleaseBuffer(len);
strLine.Format(_T("line %d: '%s'\n"), i, strText);
AFXDUMP(strLine);
}
Requirements
Header: afxwin.h