EC_HTABLE_LEN(3)

✨ EC_HTABLE_LEN(3) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the libecoli programmer's manual 💖 this one's from the Libecoli Programmer's Manual, and it's literally the shortest little function ever and honestly? iconic for it. it's called ec_htable_len and yes, we're about to get the length of a hash table. that's it. that's the whole vibe. 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ec_htable_len — get the length of a hash table. that's it bestie, that's the job 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <ecoli/htable.h>

size_t ec_htable_len(
    const struct ec_htable   *htable   /* The hash table. */
);

so you pull in <ecoli/htable.h> and then you hand it a pointer to your hash table — that's the htable argument, and yeah it's const struct ec_htable *, it's just looking, not touching, she's respectful like that 🙈 — and she gives you back a size_t. no cap.

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👑 RETURN VALUE 👑

the length of the hash table. that's the whole return value, that's the whole tea ☕ she tells you how long it is, periodt. 💖

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

go off and read these too, they're all besties fr fr:

• ec_htable_iter_get_key(3)
• ec_htable_iter_get_val(3)
• ec_htable_iter_next(3)
• ec_htable_has_key(3)
• ec_htable(3)
• ec_htable_force_seed(3)
• ec_htable_dup(3)
• ec_htable_iter_get_key_len(3)
• ec_htable_dump(3)
• ec_htable_del(3)
• ec_htable_set(3)
• ec_htable_get(3)
• ec_htable_free(3)
• ec_htable_iter(3)

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💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

Copyright (C) 2010-2026 Olivier Matz, Robin Jarry.

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okay that's the whole page bestie, no more notes, go call ec_htable_len on something, slay 💅✨

and that's a wrap on the libecoli manual, dated 2026-06-11 — mwah, bye 🫶🌸🦋