size of an IO list

[Daniel Luna]

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Joe Armstrong (AL/EAB) wrote:
> How about a BIF to compute the size of an I/O list?
>
> Why?
>
> I have made a deep list that I want to output (guess what's it's HTML :-)
>
> I need to make an HTTP header element  "Content-Length: ..."
>
> Which is the size of the flattened deep list , but I don't want to flatten it (horrors)
> or traverse it (in Erlang) to find the length.
>
> Suitable case for a BIF?

There is lists:flatlength/1 that does this, unfortunately it's not a BIF.

/Luna
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