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length (FUNCTION)

Format: (length <exp>)

Required arguments: 1

<exp> must evaluate to a sequence (e.g. list, array, vector, string)

Returns the length of the given sequence.

Examples:

>(length '(1 2 3 4 5))
5

>(length "1 2 3 4 5")
9

>(length (make-array 3))
3

>(length nil)
0



© Colin Allen & Maneesh Dhagat
November 1999