size of the bit stream?

[Carsten Schultz]

Hi Stephen!

On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 03:03:06PM -0700, Stephen Han wrote:
> Is threre any single function that returns the size of the bit
> stream in bytes?
>
> ex>
> 
> f(<< 12, 13, 43, 25 , 24 >>)  -> returns 5

If there was one, what would you call it?  :-)

Eshell V5.3  (abort with ^G)
1> size(<< 12, 13, 43, 25 , 24 >>).
5

Greetings,

Carsten

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