How can I detect line breaks on a text or textbox?

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- odiusfly
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Hey guys,

How can I detect line breaks on a text or textbox?

I don't want to detect the characters, just the line breaks.

Example:

This i a test.

Line breaks: 0

This is a test.

This is another test.

Line breaks: 1

Thanks!
- dop2000
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tokencount(text, newline)-1

You can wrap text in trim() expression to remove any line breaks at the end:

tokencount(trim(text), newline)-1
- odiusfly
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Thanks bro!!! :)
- odiusfly
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dop2000
Last question:

Is there any way to detect what/where line is a character in the text?

Example:

TEXT

A

B

C

FIND:

B

RESULT: LINE 2

Thanks!
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- dop2000
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You can compare each line in a loop using tokenat expression. There may be an easier way with regex, but I don't know it.
- odiusfly
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No problem, thanks again for your time!