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Mohamed Elgoussi

I downloaded the following file
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2701/2701-0.txt

If I search for “CHAPTER 1. Loomings.”
using notepad in windows, it is found in line 850.
using notepad++, it is found in line 1699.
Why there is a difference in line number?
Thanks.

Claudia Frank

@Mohamed-Elgoussi said:

“CHAPTER 1. Loomings.”

well I find it twice, line 48 and line 850.

What is the last line number in your document?

Cheers
Claudia

Mohamed Elgoussi

@Claudia-Frank said:

I am talking about line 850.
If I view the file via notepad in windows, it is found in line 850, while last line is 22335
If I view the file via notepad++, it is found in line 1699, while last line is 44669

Claudia Frank

@Mohamed-Elgoussi

I would assume that the document was pasted twice in notepad++ and the cursor
is placed after line 850 (or at least after the word loomings) when doing the search.
Make sure that the cursor is on line 1 by clicking into it before searching for the word.
As said, it is working for me.

Cheers
Claudia

guy038

Hello, @mohamed-elgoussi,

If I view the file via notepad in windows, it is found in line 850, while last line is 22335
If I view the file via notepad++, it is found in line 1699, while last line is 44669

It’s easy to notice that 44669 = 22335 + 22334 and that 1699 = 850 + 849

So, I suppose that, when you pasted the contents of your 2701-0.txt file, you probably did it twice !!

With my N++ v7.5.1 version, I do obtain 2 occurrences of the CHAPTER 1. Loomings. string, at column 1 of the two lines 48 and 850, with the options Normal search and Wrap around :-)

For information, your UTF-8 file contains 22,334 lines, of 71 characters max, for a total of 1,276,200 bytes

This total can be broken down into :

         1,208,075 characters, coded in 1 byte   =>  1,208,075 bytes
                48 characters, coded in 2 bytes  =>         96 bytes
             7,787 characters, coded in 3 bytes  =>     23,361 bytes
        ----------                                   ---------
CHARS    1,215,910 characters                        1,231,532 bytes
		 
            22,334 characters Carriage Return (CR)      22,334 bytes
            22,334 characters Line Feed       (LF)      22,334 bytes
        ----------                                   ---------
TOTAL    1,260,578 characters                        1,276,200 bytes

Best Regards,

guy038

Mohamed Elgoussi

Dear Sir,
I have not pasted any thing twice.
in R I run the following:
download.file(“http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2701/2701-0.txt”, “xx.txt”) in R
scan(“xx.txt”, what = “”, skip = 849, nlines = 1)
[1] “CHAPTER” “1.” “Loomings.”
i.e. which means that CHAPTER 1. Loomings. exists in line 850 not 1699 (as it is shown in file via notepad+).
Thanks

guy038

Hello, @mohamed-elgoussi,

I don’t understand ! Downloading from your second post, the contents, I obtain exactly the same file as before !

You say :

which means that CHAPTER 1. Loomings. exists in line 850 not 1699 (as it is shown in file via notepad+)

I’m sorry to insist, but, in my Notepad++ v7.5.1, I do have an occurrence of CHAPTER 1. Loomings., in line 850, and nothing, in line 1699 !

BTW the line 1699 is a pure blank line, surrounded by the text, as below :

his teeth, sprang into bed with me. I sang out, I could not help it
now; and giving a sudden grunt of astonishment he began feeling me.

Stammering out something, I knew not what, I rolled away from him
against the wall, and then conjured him, whoever or whatever he might

I don’t see. Hope that someone else will understand your problem !

Cheers,

guy038

Mohamed Elgoussi

Would you please take a look

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3Z74IvmfSYQbWZ0VVM1MWhfZ1dCeGtqSzd1UkFHNlAyQ3Rv/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3Z74IvmfSYQTWhzWENiZU83R2lfSmY4bTFuZzRmOTBDUkNR/view?usp=sharing

gstavi

The end of line is screwed, probably something like <CR><LF><LF>, Notepad++ sees every line as a line + blank line.
So Line number in Notepad++ is multiplied by 2.