Quick Line Counter

Quick Line Counter is a simple-to-use application designed to help you count lines from text files, including code, empty and comment lines. It contains several advanced options that can be easily configured, even by those less experienced with such software.

When it comes to the interface, Quick Line Counter adopts a large window with a neatly structured layout, where you can add as many files as you want to the task list before counting the lines in all of them. They can be dragged and dropped from Windows Explorer or another file manager.

Counting all lines takes little time. Results reveal the name and format of each file, in addition to the code, empty, comment and total lines, file size, along with full path. Any empty line within a block comment is taken into account and counted as a comment.

Any item can be removed from the list if you change your mind or the entire queue can be cleared to restart the task from scratch. You can set the window to stay on top of other frames, hide the tool to the systray on minimization, or disable recursive directory search mode.

As far as general settings are concerned, you can modify the default delimiters for inline comments, together with the start and end of the block comments, as well as filter files by extension.

The program's not packed in a setup kit. Instead, you can copy the downloaded files to a preferred directory on the disk or to a USB flash drive, in order to directly launch it on any PC with as little effort as possible.

It doesn't add new entries to the system registry or create files on the disk without your permission. The source code is also available in the downloaded package, and it can be examined by programmers or those interested in coding.

To sum it up, Quick Line Counter comes equipped with advanced, yet clear-cut options to help you count lines from multiple text files at the same time. Too bad it's not explicit concerning the supported file types. Our tests have shown that it's compatible with at least .txt, .rtf and odt.