Length of current selection in Eclipse

Do you know any easy way to find out w开发者_StackOverflow社区hat is the length of the current selection in Eclipse? i.e. I select a line fragment and would like to know how many characters are there?

Usually, I count them manually, but that's stupid. When being desperate, I move to the start, check the column number, move to the end, check the column number, subtract, think a minute if I should add 1 or not... and my selection is lost.

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On Windows, Notepad++ is a good solution. Open a new tab, copy and paste in there and the length of the document listed at the bottom of the window is the number of characters you have.

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Easy way? Copy the text and paste it to a counting script, like this site:

http://charcount.com/

(Warning: the site's background may hurt your eyes.)

Eclipse does support a Selection object, if you're into its API:

http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-WorkbenchSelections/article.html#example