.. highlightlang:: us

.. _whos:

whos
====

.. index:: whos

.. us.tag  whos ENGLISH Programming.Symboltable

:ref:`whos` displays information about global variables.The variable name is displayed in the first column. The second column
contains the variable type (real, complex, string). The third and
forth columns display the number of the variable's rows and columns.
The fifth column contains the variable size in bytes.

.. function::  whos()

.. us.return

**Return Value**

The return value is a string, who displays the sum of the size
of all global variables.

.. us.example

**Example**

::

   * whos()
   Name              Type Size      Bytes
   _hDoc             Real    1   1    8
   _hPage            Real    1   1    8
   _init_menu        Real    1   1    8
   _nFilterIndex     Real    1   1    8
   _nTitleCount      Real    1   1    8
   _Re_svFilename  String    4   2   43
   _rvDataConfig     Real    1   6   48
   _rvImportOption   Real    1   5   40
   _ssDir          String    1   1   21
   _ssFilter       String    1   1  128
   _ssRootDir      String    1   1   12
   _tics             Real    1   1    8
   a                 Real    1 100  800
   m                 Real    1   1    8
      Size: 1 KBytes

.. seealso::
   :ref:`overview-programming`,
   :ref:`who`,
   :ref:`what`,
   :ref:`size`,
   :ref:`type`

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