number of elements in array

Hi,

Is there a variable that tells me how many elements there are in an array?

thanks,

"Frank" <Frank@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Is there a variable that tells me how many elements there are in an array?
>

There is a property called Length on all .NET arrays. Use like so to find
out how many elements are in the first dimension of an array:

> $arr = 1,2,3,4
> $arr.Length
4

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Keith

Most collections use Count instead of Length. It is just one of the little inconsistencies in .NET. PowerShell provides an alias property so you can always use COUNT:

PS> $a=1,2,3,4,5
PS> $a.Length
5
PS> $a.Count
5