The man page for llength is http://purl.org/tcl/home/man/tcl8.4/TclCmd/llength.htm
This command returns the number of elements in the list. If the string is not a well-formed list, an error will be thrown.
caspian: Make sure to give llength the list, not just the name variable where the list is stored.
# This is the right way to do it. set mylist [list "a" "b" "c"] llength $mylist # This is the WRONG way to do it. # This won't return an error, but it will always return "1", # no matter how long or short your list is. set mylist [list "a" "b" "c"] llength mylist
See also list, lappend, lindex, linsert, lrange, lreplace, lsearch, lsort .
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