Does anyone know of a less painful way of counting the characters in a text field?

[kunigunda]

hi

found this painful-looking forum answer from 2018 and am wondering whether there’s now an easier way?

Counting Characters

Ok, curious is it possible to get the count of characters in a text box? Also is it possible to return the number of Uppercase and Lowercase? So if the client entered this in a text input field. [ The Pizza Palace ] In 3 separate fields i would get; Total Character Count = 14 Total Uppercase = 3 Total Lowercase = 11 Without spaces, of course.

many thanks

[samnichols]

I don’t believe so. This is a fring case, and regex is still the best solution for it.

[ZeroqodeSupport]

Hi @kunigunda,

For your use case, you might want to try some available plugins.

Here’s a free plugin that could be helpful:
The Countable Plugin

Feel free to explore the live demo page and review the documentation to ensure smooth integration.

Let us know if this helps!

Best regards,

Support Team
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[kunigunda]

thanks but am looking for a non-plugin alternative

[adamhholmes]

I’m not sure wha’s ‘painful’ about that… it’s actually very simple…

Just use [A-Z] to extract the uppercase characters and [a-z] to extract the lowercase characters.

Simple, and works perfectly.

[boston85719]

is this not possible for your use case?

Operators and comparisons | Bubble Docs

[kunigunda]

nice one, thanks! (my search for ‘character count’ in the manual was a dead end)

am a bit allergic to regex, so was hoping for a non-gobblygoop solution and this did the trick, so thanks again : )

[kunigunda]

regex is simple/perfect for those who have been there/done that but i can -thankfully- put off learning to use regex for another day : )

[adamhholmes]

But there’s no other way to do it… (you can’t do this without regex)