Name

Item Number (Scilab gateway) — How to get the number of items in a list (list, mlist, tlist).

Calling Sequence

SciErr getListItemNumber(void* _pvCtx, int* _piAddress, int* _piNbItem)

Parameters

_pvCtx

Scilab environment pointer, pass in "pvApiCtx" provided by api_scilab.h.

_piAddress

Address of the list.

_piNbItem

Return the number of items.

SciErr

Error structure where is stored errors messages history and first error number.

Description

This help describes how to get the number of items in a list (list, mlist, tlist).

Gateway Source

             
int get_list_info(int* _piAddress);
void insert_indent(void);

static int iLocalTab = 0;

int common_list(char *fname,unsigned long fname_len)
{
    SciErr sciErr;
    int *piAddr     = NULL;

    CheckRhs(1,1);

    sciErr = getVarAddressFromPosition(pvApiCtx, 1, &piAddr);
    if(sciErr.iErr)
    {
        printError(&sciErr, 0);
        return 0;
    }

    get_list_info(piAddr);

    LhsVar(1) = 0;
    return 0;
}

int get_list_info(int* _piAddress)
{
    SciErr sciErr;
    int i       = 0;
    int iRet    = 0;
    int iItem   = 0;

    //get list item number, failed if variable is not a kind of list
    sciErr = getListItemNumber(pvApiCtx, _piAddress, &iItem);
    if(sciErr.iErr)
    {
        printError(&sciErr, 0);
        sciprint("This variable is not a list");
        return 0;
    }

    sciprint("List (%d items) -> address : 0x%08X) : \n", iItem, _piAddress);
    for(i = 0 ; i < iItem ; i++)
    {
        int iType           = 0;
        int* piAddrChild    = NULL;
        sciErr = getListItemAddress(pvApiCtx, _piAddress, i + 1, &piAddrChild);
        if(sciErr.iErr)
        {
            printError(&sciErr, 0);
            return 0;
        }

        sciErr = getVarType(pvApiCtx, piAddrChild, &iType);
        if(sciErr.iErr)
        {
            printError(&sciErr, 0);
            return 0;
        }

        if(iType == sci_list || iType == sci_tlist || iType == sci_mlist)
        {
            insert_indent();
            sciprint("Child %d -> ", i + 1);
            iLocalTab++;
            iRet = get_list_info(piAddrChild);
            iLocalTab--;
            if(iRet)
            {
                return 1;
            }
        }
        else
        {
            insert_indent();
            sciprint("Child %d -> address : 0x%08X\n", i + 1, piAddrChild);
        }
    }
    return 0;
}

void insert_indent(void)
{
    int i = 0;
    for(i = 0 ; i < iLocalTab ; i++)
    {
        sciprint("\t");
    }
}

Scilab test script

             
l1 = [1,2*%i,3;%i,2,3*%i];
l2 = ["may","the";"puffin","be";"with","you"];
l3 = int8([1,2,3]);
l5 = list(l1,l2,l3);
l4 = list(l5, list(l5,l5));
l6 = uint16([1000,2000,3000]);
l = list(l1,l2,l3,l6,l4,l5);
common_list(l)