i think its the length of the sound file but this doesnt seem to be in the help file or doc could someone tell me real fast

is the output the length of the loaded file

is that ms?

thanks a bunch

It's the length of the file in samples.

It outputs the size of the data written to the table. So if you use:
read -resize sample.wav table
It will resize the table to fit file.wav and output its size.

The output in this case would be the size of file.wav in samples.

If you don't use -resize then it will truncate the files data at the fixed size of the table, outputting that. So if you have a table of size 10 and try reading a sound file larger than 10 samples it will only read the first ten samples and output 10.

To get the size in ms divide the output by samplerate in ms, probably 44.1.