TextMetrics

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From the site:

Have you ever needed to find out where the line breaks occur in a dynamic TextField? How about the precise x/y coordinates of a particular phrase/string along with its width & height so that you could highlight it somehow? Or maybe the width of each line of text? That’s all possible with the gs.utils.text.TextMetrics class. And to be consistent with the getTextLineMetrics() function in the TextField AS3 class, it also returns the descent, ascent, and leading values too. You must publish to Flash 8 or later for accurate results.

http://blog.greensock.com/textmetrics/