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## Manual Page Viewer

Name: SYMBOL-INFO

Section: Language Operators

Synopsis:

`<symbol-info SYMBOL>`

Description:

Returns information about the symbol SYMBOL.

The information is two lines:

1. The type of the symbol, either STRING, BINARY, or FUNCTION.
2. The "size" of the symbol.

For STRING variables, the size value is the number of elements in the array.

For BINARY variables, the size value is the number of bytes of binary data stored within.

The size value is zero for all other variable types.

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