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count() function

count() returns the number of records in each input table.

The function counts both null and non-null records.

Empty tables

count() returns 0 for empty tables. To keep empty tables in your data, set the following parameters for the following functions:

FunctionParameter
filter()onEmpty: "keep"
window()createEmpty: true
aggregateWindow()createEmpty: true
Function type signature
(<-tables: stream[A], ?column: string) => stream[B] where A: Record, B: Record

For more information, see Function type signatures.

Parameters

column

Column to count values in and store the total count.

tables

Input data. Default is piped-forward data (<-).

Examples

Count the number of records in each input table

import "sampledata"

sampledata.string()
    |> count()

Count the number of records with a specific value

  1. Use filter() to filter data by the specific value you want to count.
  2. Use count() to count the number of rows in the table.
import "sampledata"

data =
    sampledata.int()
        |> filter(fn: (r) => r._value > 10)

data
    |> count()

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