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Getmemocharno

Here we interrogate the Windows API to ascertain the total number of characters in the previous lines of a RichEdit component -note that the i variable is an integer value for the current line... previousChars := SendMessage(REForm.RichEdit.Handle, EM_LINEINDEX, i, 0); Note that SendMessage() is an API function, not a function built in to Delphi, and if we use Delphi Help to tell us about SendMessage, the information we get is actually from the Windows API Help system...