length - Length of object (original) (raw)
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Calling Sequence
Arguments
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 inn 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.
WARNING : length of a sparse matrix returns the max of dimensions and not the product of the dimensions. (example : length(sparse(eye(12,2))) returns max(12,2) and not 24)
please use size(...,'*') with sparse matrix.
Examples
length([123 ; 456 ]) length(['hello world',SCI])
See Also
- size — size of objects