How to calculate the number of elements in a matrix?

e.g having this matrix: M=[ 1 2 3; 7 8 9] I want to return 6 which is the total number of elements I want some other method besides size(M,1)*size(M,2). Thx

[Stephen23]

Any internet search engine will tell you:

http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/numel.html

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

Use numel():

numberOfElements = numel(M);

[Pravin Narola]

Thank you!worked perfectly.