next up previous contents
Next: cifCountRowsByIndex Up: CIFLIB Category Access Functions Previous: cifGetCategoryKeysByIndex

cifCountRows

NAME cifCountRows

PROTOTYPE

#include "ciflib.h"

int cifCountRows(const char *dataBlockName, 
                 const char *categoryName)
PURPOSE

cifCountRows returns the number of rows in the target category within the target data block. Both the category and the data block are identified by name.

RECEIVES

dataBlockName name of the target data block
categoryName name of the target category

RETURN VALUE

Returns the number of rows or a value of -1 for failure.

REMARKS

See also: cifCountRowsByIndex



Olivera Tosic
6/17/2002