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length            Scilab Group            Scilab Function            length
NAME
   length - length of object
  
CALLING SEQUENCE
 n=length(M) 
PARAMETERS
 M    : matrix (usual or polynomial or character string) or list
      
 n    : integer or integer matrix
      
DESCRIPTION
   For usual or polynomial matrix n is the integer equal to number of rows
  times number of columns of M. (Also valid for M a boolean matrix)
  
   For matrices made of character strings (and in particular for a character
  string) length returns in n the length of entries of the matrix of
  character strings M.
  
   The length of a list is the number of elements in the list (also given by
  size).
  
   length('123') is 3. length([1,2;3,4]) is 4.
  
SEE ALSO
   size