GetElementChildrenCount

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This function returns the number of children an element has.

Syntax

int getElementChildrenCount ( element parent )

Required Arguments

  • parent: the parent element

Returns

Returns an int with the number of child elements, or false if the parent element does not exist.

Example

To get the number of children the 'team1' element has: 

<team1 id="red">
    <spawnpoint id="spawnpoint_0" posX="2507.8715820313" posY="2772.6071777344" posZ="10.8203125" rot="270" skin="285"/>
    <spawnpoint id="spawnpoint_1" posX="2508.060546875" posY="2780.3647460938" posZ="10.8203125" rot="270" skin="285"/>
    <spawnpoint id="spawnpoint_2" posX="2508.0053710938" posY="2776.2897949219" posZ="10.8203125" rot="270" skin="285"/>
    <spawnpoint id="spawnpoint_3" posX="2510.6899414063" posY="2778.3745117188" posZ="10.8203125" rot="270" skin="285"/>
</team1>

You could use the following code: 

local teamRed = getElementByID("red") -- find the parent element by it's ID
local count = getElementChildrenCount (teamRed) -- get the total number of children
outputChatBox("Team red has " .. count .. " spawnpoints") -- output: Team red has 4 spawnpoints

Note that this does not only counts spawnpoint elements, but all child elements. Thus if you would have other child elements, the message would be wrong.

See Also


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