llGetListLength

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Summary

Function: integer llGetListLength( list src );

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

• list src

Examples

<lsl> default {

   state_entry()
   {
       list l = ["one", "two", "three"];
       integer i = llGetListLength(l);
       llOwnerSay("there are " + (string)i + " entries in the list");
   }

}

</lsl>

Notes

A faster and lighter (in bytecode) way to determine the length of a list 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. <lsl> 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); //fneg_len_in and neg_len_in will be the same </lsl>

See Also

Functions

•  llListStatistics LIST_STAT_NUM_COUNT – Returns the number of integers and floats in the list
•  llStringLength Returns the number of characters in a string.

Deep Notes

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Source

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

Signature

function integer llGetListLength( list src );