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AcroForm Word Count Validation

Mr.Jiggs
Registered: Apr 11 2006
Posts: 39

I'd like to be able to limit a text field by word count, versus the built in character count. How can I do this ?

Mr. Jiggs

Mr. Jiggs

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8.0
Mr.Jiggs
Registered: Apr 11 2006
Posts: 39
I figured it out. First I had to remember to not try to edit a form I had already applited the "reader rights" to (d'oh!). Then I added the folowing script to the Validation of a TextField named "BioText" to warn if more than 300 words had been entered:

var f=this.getField("BioText").value;
var aWords = f.split(" ");
var nNumWords = aWords.length;

if (nNumWords > 300) {
app.alert("You have entered too many words.\nI count around " + nNumWords + "words.\nPlease reduce the amount of your text.");
}

Mr. Jiggs