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+# charposition
+Small Windows app that renders a source file and shows the lines, columns and the number of each character in the file
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+![Char position counting chars on a file](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PlasticSCM/charposition/master/screenshot/charpositionscreenshot.png)
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+This app is useful to understand how SemanticMerge/Plastic SCM external parsers work.
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+While learning how to develop external parsers you probably create a parser by hand. Then you need to "count" the chars where declarations (methods, namespaces, classes, includes) start and end. This is painful. This app helps you in the process.