size of an IO list

[Raimo Niskanen]

lists:flatlength/1 works on a deep list of numbers, but not if the 
list contains binaries, nor if the list or one of its sublists
is an improper list with a binary at the tail, as allowed for
I/O lists.


luna@REDACTED (Daniel Luna) writes:

> 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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