[PD] Question on getting the amount of values in a table and setting table to zero

[Patrice Colet]

Colet Patrice

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> De: "Rick T" <ratulloch at gmail.com>
> À: "PD List" <pd-list at iem.at>
> Envoyé: Jeudi 4 Octobre 2012 17:47:57
> Objet: [PD] Question on getting the amount of values in a table and setting table to zero
> 
> 
> Greetings All
> 
> 1) I'm trying to find a way to get the total amount of values in a
> table. I found arraysize but that doesn't seem to give me the
> correct output
> 
> Example:
> If I create a table with "; arrayx 0 .1 .3 .5 .3 .1"
> I'm trying to get the output to be 5 since there are 5 values in it.

if you set manually array values, maybe [list-abs/list-len] is the answer...

something like this:

[.1 .3 .5 .3 .1(
|
[list]
|
[t a a]
|    |
|    [list length]
|    |
|    [;arrayx resize $1(
|
[list prepend 0]
|
[list trim]
|
[s arrayx]

> 2) I'm also trying to set all values in array to zero with out having
> to zero each index.
> 
> Example
> If I create a table with "; arrayx 0 .1 .3 .5 .3 .1"
> is there an option to set all indexes values back to zero (or set the
> entire array back to zero) without
> creating another object like this"; arrayx 0 0 0 0 0 0"

[;arrayx const 0(