llength(3tcl)

llength3tcl

Count the number of elements in a list

Usage

llength list


    


    


    

Overview

Treats list as a list and returns a decimal string giving the number of elements in it.

Examples

The result is the number of elements:

% llength {a b c d e}
5
% llength {a b c}
3
% llength {}
0

Elements are not guaranteed to be exactly words in a dictionary sense of course, especially when quoting is used:

% llength {a b {c d} e}
4
% llength {a b { } c d e}
6

An empty list is not necessarily an empty string:

% set var { }; puts "[string length $var],[llength $var]"
1,0

Keywords

element, list, length

Releases

18 releases since Debian 1.1 (Buzz); the text changed 7 times.

  1. 1.1–2.0
  2. 2.1–3.1
  3. 4.0
  4. 5.0
  5. 6.0
  6. 7
  7. 8
  8. 9–13

From tcl8.6-doc 8.6.16+dfsg-1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Also shipped by tcl9.0-doc. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.