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area command

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    05-Apr-88 21:25:02
Sb: area command
Fm: Emmanuel Paul 72117,177
To: sysop (X)

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I have several drawings which contain multiple polyline entities, each of which may have several hundred vertices. I would like to measure the area of each polyline. Currently I am doing this manually. I have tried to write an Alisp routine to do this and record the results in a file. I can select each entity from the data base but cannot figure a way to bind the result of the area command. Is there a way around this that I have overlooked?