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Article #1057Re: Length of Arrays in SML
From: Andrew Koenig
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 09:28
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 09:28
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In article <C0ECE1.Ju@cs.dal.ca> ssmith@ug.cs.dal.ca (Susan E Smith) writes: > PROBLEM: I am using Standard ML (New Jersey), Version 0.66 and I am trying > to use the Array function "length" to get the length of an array. The problem is that the built-in function "length" takes a list, as you found out. What you want is the "length" in the Array structure, which is therefore called Array.length: val My_Array = arrayoflist ["Hi","My","Name","Is","Bob"]; Array.length My_Array; should print 5. -- --Andrew Koenig ark@europa.att.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!linac!att!att!allegra!alice!ark From: ark@alice.att.com (Andrew Koenig) Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional Subject: Re: Length of Arrays in SML Message-ID: <24561@alice.att.com> Date: 6 Jan 93 09:28:50 GMT Article-I.D.: alice.24561 References: <C0ECE1.Ju@cs.dal.ca> Reply-To: ark@alice.UUCP () Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ Lines: 16