Counting Items in a Value List

[compass53]

How do I easily count items in a value list? I have been using an IF statement field like: if "item" 1,0. Then I use a summary field to sum the counted items. This makes 2 fields per counted item, which really uses up space. There must be an easier way to do this.

[Vaughan]

A value list is a list of values, paragraph separated. The number of values in a value list equals the number of paragraphs in the list, plus 1.

PatternCount( ValueListItems( Get( FileName ) ; "valuelistname" ), "" ) + 1

[sbg2]

ValueCount(ValueListItems("MyFileName";"MyValueList")

[Vaughan]

Ah yes... I'm still in 6-Think.

[compass53]

Thanks, I'll give the suggesions a go.

Ray