countchildren

guerilla.countchildren(node, type, pattern='', recursive=False)

Returns the number of children.

The countchildren function is written as:

LUA{ function countchildren (...)

local count = 0 for node in children (...) do

count = count+1

end return count

end }

param node:The parent node to count children type node:Node param type:A class the children to count type type:str param pattern:A Lua’s pattern used to check the name of the node, or a function that filter the node. See Lua’s pattern documentation. type pattern:str or function param recursive:  if true, traverse the children recursively. type recursive:bool