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URL: http://cxc.harvard.edu/ciao3.4/length.tm.html
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Synopsis

Get the length of an object

Syntax

Integer_Type length (obj)

Description

The length function may be used to get information about the length of an object. For simple scalar data-types, it returns 1. For arrays, it returns the total number of elements of the array.

If obj is a string, length returns 1 because a String_Type object is considered to be a scalar. To get the number of characters in a string, use the strlen function.

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