count - return number of variable values

SYNOPSIS

<count $var>

DESCRIPTION
The count function counts the number of values a variable has.

Note that in version 8 syntax - i.e. when the syntaxversion pragma (here) is 8 or more - a variable's number of values may also be obtained with $#var (here).

DIAGNOSTICS
count returns the (integer) number of values the $var variable has.

EXAMPLE

<$x = this is a test>
<count $x>
$ret values.

The output would be:

4 values.

CAVEATS
The count function was added Aug. 29 1996.