# Missing API for getting just the count of a key range?

**URL:** <https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/missing-api-for-getting-just-the-count-of-a-key-range/444>\
**Category:** FoundationDB Core\
**Created:** [May 21, 2018, 9:23am UTC](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/missing-api-for-getting-just-the-count-of-a-key-range/444 "2018-05-21T09:23:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![KrzysFR](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/foundationdb/user_avatar/forums.foundationdb.org/krzysfr/32/43_2.png) [@KrzysFR](https://forums.foundationdb.org/u/KrzysFR)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 1:29pm UTC](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/missing-api-for-getting-just-the-count-of-a-key-range/444/6 "2018-05-22T13:29:48Z")

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> [@cloudspeech](#):
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> How is the range.count implemented underlyingly?

You can see an explanation in this thread =\> [Getting the number of key/value pairs](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/getting-the-number-of-key-value-pairs/189)

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