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llength(n)                                  Tcl Built-In Commands                                 llength(n)



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NAME
       llength - Count the number of elements in a list

SYNOPSIS
       llength list
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DESCRIPTION
       Treats list as a list and returns a decimal string giving the number of elements in it.


EXAMPLES
       The result is the number of elements:
              % llength {a b c d e}
              5
              % llength {a b c}
              3
              % llength {}
              0

       Elements  are  not  guaranteed  to  be exactly words in a dictionary sense of course, especially when
       quoting is used:
              % llength {a b {c d} e}
              4
              % llength {a b { } c d e}
              6

       An empty list is not necessarily an empty string:
              % set var { }; puts "[string length $var],[llength $var]"
              1,0


SEE ALSO
       list(n), lappend(n), lindex(n), linsert(n), lsearch(n), lset(n), lsort(n), lrange(n), lreplace(n)


KEYWORDS
       element, list, length



Tcl                                                                                               llength(n)

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