How do i get the amount of lines in a script?

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How do i get the amount of lines in a script from a script?

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You can just scroll to the bottom of the script and count. Or you can use this plugin (I own it so I know that it is a safe plugin to use):

Countlines

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You cannot get the number of lines inside a script using another script.
As @XdJackyboiiXd21 stated, you can use a plugin to find the number of lines.

This is because Script | Roblox Creator Documentation is exclusively accessible through the Command Bar and Plugins.
Script.Source is considered a Protected String var so only permission 1 identities can access it.

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The script is a plugin, can you give me a example?

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There was a post about this 6 years ago on the ScriptingHelpers forum, here is the basic outline of what they found:

function getLines(s)

    local lines = {};
    local str = "";

    for i = 1, string.len(s.Source) do
    	if (string.sub(s.Source, i, i) == "\n") then
	    	lines[#lines+1] = str;
	    	str = "";
    	else
	    	str = str..string.sub(s.Source, i, i);
    	end
    end

	if (str ~= "") then
		lines[#lines+1] = str;
	end
	    return #lines;
end

And here is the link to the original post:

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Can’t like a simple solution with the help of string.split() work?

local ChoosenScript --Reference it yourself.
print(#string.split(ChoosenScript.Source, "\n"))

After all, it returns an array like table with lines divided into separate strings so you can just get the length of array like table.

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So I was curious about this too, and was curious about how much code I’ve written for a project. Using the information I gathered here, I assembled this command for doing this:

local allScriptLines = 0 for index : number, descendant : Instance in game:GetDescendants() do if (descendant:IsA('Script') or descendant:IsA('LocalScript') or descendant:IsA('ModuleScript')) then allScriptLines += #string.split(descendant.Source, "\n") end end print(allScriptLines)

I don’t mean to revive a long since inactive thread at all, just wanted to post something here for those that do find it when looking to do what I wanted. As for getting it from a script, I don’t believe you can due to security reasons outside of the ROBLOX Studio environment as a plugin or executable command?

2025 EDIT: If you only use ServerScriptService, ReplicatedFirst, ReplicatedStorage, StarterGui and StarterPlayer, here’s a script that will give you the respective line count of each service separately, printed as such:

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function GetServiceLines(srv : ServiceProvider) local allScriptLines = 0 for index : number, descendant : Instance in srv:GetDescendants() do if (descendant:IsA('Script') or descendant:IsA('LocalScript') or descendant:IsA('ModuleScript')) then allScriptLines += #string.split(descendant.Source, "\n") end end print("In "..srv.Name..": ".. allScriptLines)
end GetServiceLines(game:GetService('ServerScriptService')); GetServiceLines(game:GetService('ReplicatedFirst')); GetServiceLines(game:GetService('ReplicatedStorage')); GetServiceLines(game:GetService('StarterGui')); GetServiceLines(game:GetService('StarterPlayer'))```