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finds the size of an element
where matrix is a numeric or character matrix.
The NLENG function returns a single numeric value that is the size in bytes of each element in matrix. All matrix elements have the same size. If the matrix does not have a value, then the NLENG function returns a value of 0. This function is different from the LENGTH function, which returns the size of each element of a character matrix, omitting the trailing blanks.
The following statement returns the value 7:
a=nleng({"ab " "ijklm ", "x" " "});
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