Spaces1 at the beginning and end of lines are not counted
Repeated spaces1 are counted as a single character and byte
Line breaks2 are counted as a single character and byte
Repeated line breaks2 are counted as a single character and byte
Repeated spaces1 and/or line breaks2 are counted as a single character and byte
Command seperating pipes3 are counted as a single character and byte
Lines prefixed4 with ";
" are not counted