COUNT 


count( table )
table the variable name of the table you want to count

This function will return the highest number key in a table. To accurately return the total count, the table must be numbered and without any gaps.

Example

We can create a table that is a list of color strings first and add values immediately like this:

colors = { "red", "blue", "pink", "yellow" }
Colors
1 "red"
2 "blue"
3 "pink"
4 "yellow"

Then if we want to count the number of entries in the table, we can do this:

count( colors ) --returns 4

Shorthand

#colors --returns 4

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5 May 2023

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