len

Return the length of the argument.


Synopsis

val = len(item)


Description

len will return the length of the argument item. If it is a Minc list, it returns the number of elements in the list. If it is a string, it returns the number of characters in the string. For other types it returns “1”. (Note: this includes pfield-handles and table-handles — see the tablelen scorefile command for accessing table lengths).


Arguments


Examples

After parsing he following scorefile segment:

   arr = { 1, 2, 3 }
   val1 = len(arr)
   val2 = len("hey there")

val1 will be set to 3, and val2 will be set to 9.


See Also

tablelen, type