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length(1) Scilab Function length(1)
NAME
length - length of object
CALLING SEQUENCE
n=length(M)
PARAMETERS
M : matrix (usual or polynomial or character string) or list
n : integer or integer matrix
DESCRIPTION
For usual or polynomial matrix n is the integer equal to number of rows
times number of columns of M. (Also valid for M a boolean matrix)
For matrices made of character strings (and in particular for a character
string) length returns in n the length of entries of the matrix of charac-
ter strings M.
The length of a list is the number of elements in the list (also given by
size).
length('123') is 3. length([1,2;3,4]) is 4.
SEE ALSO
size, syssize