title: Looking for text character counting functionality in ahk
body: <h1>Is there any text counting functionality in ahk?</h1>
  <p>I want to make an character counter where, if i press ctrl+alt+-, an input box will open. And the number of characters used in the variable‘s value will be counted.</p>
  <p><code>You can start with:</code></p>
  <pre><code>&lt;^&lt;!-::
  InputBox, Text1, Count, Paste the text in the text box to count the number of characters it has, and find things in that text
  MsgBox text:You typed %Text1%.`nCharacters:
  return
  </code></pre>
  <p>any answers? thanks.</p>