Difference between revisions of "ALEN()"

Latest revision as of 15:49, 26 November 2009

Purpose

Function to return the number of elements, rows or columns in an array

Syntax

ALEN(<array> [,<expN>])

See Also

AADD(), AAVERAGE(), ABROWSE(), ACHOICE(), ACOL(), ACOPY(), ADEL(), ADESC(), ADIR(), AELEMENT(), AFIELDS(), AFILL(), AINS(), AMAX(), AMIN(), APPEND FROM ARRAY, AROW(), ARRAY(), ASCAN(), ASIZE(), ASORT(), ASTORE(), ASTRING(), ASUBSCRIPT(), ASUM(), COPY TO ARRAY, DECLARE, DIMENSION, GATHER, IN_ARRAY(), LOCAL, PRIVATE, PUBLIC, RELEASE, RESTORE, SAVE, SCATTER

Description

The ALEN() function returns the number of elements in the previously declared <array>. If the optional <expN> is specified, ALEN() can also return the number of rows or the number of columns in the array.

If no <expN> is specified, the number of array elements is returned.

Example

declare aNames[10,12]
? alen(aNames)
       120
? alen(aNames,0)
       120
? alen(aNames,1)
        10
? alen(aNames,2)
        12

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