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cifCountCategories

NAME cifCountCategories

PROTOTYPE

#include "ciflib.h"

int cifCountCategories(const char *dataBlockName)
PURPOSE

cifCountCategories returns the number of categories in the named data block.

RECEIVES

dataBlockName the target data block name

RETURN VALUE

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

REMARKS

See also: cifCountCategoriesByIndex



Olivera Tosic
6/17/2002