RichTextBox Length is weird

I am using a rich text box and then loading a text file and counting the number of charcters. I get numbers that aren't right, even when i only have 1 letter it says 101 as the length

anyone know how to get the length of all the text from a richtextbox?

i used len(richtextbox1) but they failed

thanks in advance

I think this should work:

VB Code:

len(RichTextBox1.Text)

len(richtextbox1) won't work the way you expected it to because the Text property is not the default property of the richtextbox as it is for a textbox. If you want to see why you got that "strange" result, do MsgBox richtextbox1.