Get in bag item count by item id

[Arcilux]

So, I am trying to create a LUA function to count the number of a specific item, the problem that I am coming up with is if there are stacks of the item in more than one bag.

local function countItem(bag, item)
	for slot = 0, GetContainerNumSlots(bag) do
		local itemid = GetContainerItemID(bag, slot)
		if(item == itemid) then
		        --Increment the item count here using GetContainerItemInfo
		end
        end
end

I see two options, I can store the item count for each bag, and add those 5 numbers to get the total item count, or I can reset the item count to 0 and call countItem for every bag on every BAG_UPDATE event. I'm not a huge fan of either solution, but don't see a better way. Any suggestions?

[Deleted]

Just loop through (0 through NUM_BAG_SLOTS) and add them all up.

local function countItem(item)
    local c
    for bag=0,NUM_BAG_SLOTS do
        for slot=1,GetContainerNumSlots(bag) do
            if item == GetContainerItemID(bag,slot) then
                c=c+(select(2,GetContainerItemInfo(bag,slot)))
            end
        end
    end
    return c
end

---------- Post added 2011-09-11 at 09:05 PM ----------

Checking the API doc, why not just use GetItemCount?

[Arcilux]

Checking the API doc, why not just use GetItemCount?

Somehow I overlooked that, works perfectly for my situation