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This message retrieves the character index of a line in a multiline edit control.

Syntax 

EM_LINEINDEX 

wParam = (WPARAM) 
line;

lParam = 0;

Parameters

line

Specifies the zero-based line number. A value of –1 specifies the line number of the current line, which is the line that contains the cursor.

lParam

Not used; set to 0.

Return Value

The character index of the line specified in the lineparameter, or –1 if the specified line number is greater than the number of lines in the edit control. The character index is the number of characters from the beginning of the edit control to the first character of the specified line.

Requirements

Header windows.h
Windows Embedded CE Windows CE 1.0 and later
Windows Mobile Windows Mobile Version 5.0 and later

See Also