Estimate length with out NaN's

Hello
I use the length command to see the length of some of my variables, although they include NaN's inside by a previous script I used so as to fill them and compare them Is there a way to find the length of the data non-taking into account the NaN?
I tried nanlength , as you can use nanmean etc. although it does not like it
it gives me this error
Undefined function 'nanlength' for input arguments of type 'double'.

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Stephen23
Stephen23 on 11 Mar 2015
Edited: Stephen23 on 11 Mar 2015
Keep in mind that length does not give the number of elements in an array: for this you should use numel .

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 Accepted Answer

This works:
nonan_len = length(x(~isnan(x)));

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Thank you very much, just what I needed !
My pleasure!

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If x is your vector.
YourLength = length(x) - sum(isnan(x))

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