Name

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      LENGTH

Purpose

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      Find the length of a vector (or the longest dimension of an array).

Category

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      Array

Calling Sequence

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      result = Length(array)

Inputs

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      array: a vector or array.

Outputs

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      result: the length of the input vector (if the input is an
              array with more than 1 dimension then result is the
              length of the longest dimension of 'array').

Example

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  IDL> a = StrArr(10)
  IDL> Print,Length(a)
            10
  IDL> b = FltArr(10,10,100)
  IDL> Print,Length(b)
            100

Modification History

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  Written by: Edward C. Wiebe, 2002-06-09.