Difference between revisions of "LlGetListLength"

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Revision as of 20:20, 2 March 2007

Summary

Function: integer llGetListLength( list src );

Returns an integer that is the number of elements in the list src.

• list src

Examples

Notes

A faster and lighter (in bytecode) way to determine the length of a script is to do a not-equals compare with a null list. This works because the list not-equals compare returns the difference between the lengths.

list in;
integer len_in = llGetListLength(in);
integer flen_in = (in != []);
//flen_in and len_in will be the same

integer neg_len_in = -llGetListLength(in);
integer fneg_len_in = ([] != in);
//flen_in and len_in will be the same

Locations

'linden\indra\lscript\lscript_library\lscript_alloc.cpp' @ lsa_cmp_lists
'linden\indra\lscript\lscript_execute\lscript_execute.cpp' @ list_list_operation

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Signature

function integer llGetListLength( list src );