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Question about size() and length() of lists (newbie question)
From: |
John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
Question about size() and length() of lists (newbie question) |
Date: |
Thu, 14 Dec 2000 11:37:37 -0600 |
On 14-Dec-2000, Douglas Eck <address@hidden> wrote:
| I noticed that size() and length() treat lists
| differently. I can imagine that this is
| desired behavior but I thought I'd ask.
|
| Octave >> version
| ans = 2.1.31
| Octave >> l=list('a','b','c')
| l =
| (
| [1] = a
| [2] = b
| [3] = c
| )
| Octave >> length(l)
| ans = 3
| Octave >> size(l)
| ans =
|
| -1 -1
Length seems a natural way to ask for the length of a list, which
doesn't have an orientation (it is not a row or column vector), and as
currently implemented, cannot be two dimensional.
jwe
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