maximum characters in string

[Kowshik Nandagudi]

what is the maximum number of characters that can be stored in string???

[Tom Reilly]

Integer.MAX_VALUE or, theoretically, half your heap size - whichever is smaller.

[Jesper de Jong]

This is not the first time someone asks this question on the forums here. I wonder why this is such an interesting question.

Is this an interview question that gets asked to a lot of people? If it is, then the goal is probably not to check if you know the answer, but to find out how you reason to find an answer to the question.

[Christophe Verré]

Jesper de Jong wrote:This is not the first time someone asks this question on the forums here. I wonder why this is such an interesting question.

This might be asked at Jeopardy.

[Campbell Ritchie]

Christophe Verré wrote: . . . This might be asked at Jeopardy.

Does that mean this thread should move to "MD"?