#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# file aalength.mac
# Written by X. Jiao 06/05/2005 Version 1.0
#
# Generic SPEC macros
# 
#
# _aa_length -> <generic> return number of elements in an associative array
# strjoin   -> <generic> eliminate the some characters in the string
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
def _aa_length(aname) '{
  local field n
  if( !( (whatis("aname")>>16)&0x100 ) ) {
    print "Not an associative array."
    exit
  }
  for(field in aname) n++ 
  return n
}'

def strjoin(s,delimiter) '{
   local tmp[] i new n
   split(s,tmp,delimiter)
   n=_aa_length(tmp)
   for( i=0;i<n;i++) new=sprintf("%s%s",new,tmp[i])
   return new
} '