JSON_ARRAY_LENGTH

On this page

Overview

The JSON_ARRAY_LENGTH() function returns the length of a specified JSON array.

This function has the following basic syntax.

JSON_ARRAY_LENGTH(arrayval JSON)

The required argument for this function is arrayval. It represents the JSON array which we will count the length.

The following example returns the number of elements in the array:

SELECT JSON_ARRAY_LENGTH('[4, 7, 10, 11, 14, {"vegetables":"spinach","fruits":"melon"}, {"a":"b"}]');

The function above will return the following result:

+-------+
| f     |
+-------+
| 7     |
+-------+

The following example returns the number of elements in the array.

SELECT JSON_ARRAY_LENGTH('[1, 2, [3, 4]]');

You will get the final result as follows:

+-------+
| f     |
+-------+
| 3     |
+-------+

This example shows that an empty JSON array will return 0.

SELECT JSON_ARRAY_LENGTH('[]');

An empty array will return 0 in the final output:

+-------+
| f     |
+-------+
| 0     |
+-------+