The man page for llength is http://purl.org/tcl/home/man/tcl8.4/TclCmd/llength.htm This command returns the number of [element]s in the list. If the string is not a well-formed list, an error will be thrown. See also [list], [lindex], [lrange] ---- [Tcl syntax help] - [Arts and crafts of Tcl-Tk programming]