determining array lengths

[Jan Schenkel]

My apologies, Brad. I only realised afterwards that my
answer was off by the length of a small
football-field.
Richard is right: have a look at the extents function.
My solution does work for determining the number of
lines if the keys for the columns are non-numeric.

Jan Schenkel.

--- Jan Schenkel <janschenkel at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi Brad,
> 
> I looked into this a while ago. My solution was:
> 
> 1) If the second dimension is fixed (always NN
> elements), you can suffice by saying:
>   put (the number of lines of the keys of tArray /
> NN)
> 
> 2) If however NN is variable, you can get it with
> the
> following trick:
>   put the keys of tArray into tKeys
>   split tKeys using return and comma
>   put the number of lines of the keys of tKeys
> 
> I know it looks convoluted, but it works, even if
> the
> second dimension varies.
> 
> Hope this helped,
> 
> Jan Schenkel.
> 
> (You can find the entire thread at the URL:
>
http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/2002-August/006786.html
> )
> 
> 
> --- Brad Allen <BradAllen at mac.com> wrote:
> > After looking around in the documentation, I
> haven't
> > been able to 
> > find a simple function to determine the number of
> > keys for a given 
> > array dimension. Do I need to parse the output of
> > the keys function 
> > for this, or have I overlooked something in the
> > documentation?
> > 
> > I was hoping the number function might do it, as
> in
> > 
> >       the number of keys in myArray
> > 
> > The expected output would be something like
> > [100,50], to indicate the 
> > dimensions of the array.
> > 
> > The "number of lines in the keys of myArray" only
> > works for 
> > one-dimensional arrays.
> > 
> > Thanks...
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