[GAP Forum] counting elements

[Joe Bohanon]

This also works for arrays.  (Matter of fact, a string is just an array 
of characters).

Joe

Robert Morse wrote:
> The Length and Collected commands are what you are looking for.
>
> gap> list:="abbccc";;
> gap> Length(list);
> 6
> gap> Collected(list);
> [ [ 'a', 1 ], [ 'b', 2 ], [ 'c', 3 ] ]
>
>
> Robert F. Morse
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 4:47 AM, Jan Schneider <jansch2 at gmx.de> wrote:
>   
>> Hi there,
>> I'm just wondering, whether you all can tell me how to count the objects of a list. If I define for example a list:="abbccc", how do I manage to let GAP count the letters?
>> Hope to hear from you soon.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Stefan
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