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Hi,

I would like to know if in java is it possible to know the size of a string as in java there is no sizeof() operater....

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The short answer is 'no' but you might get a different answer if you explain why you think you need this.
 
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String.length(). However it will depend on the encoding you're using what the actual number of bytes is (that get written to a stream).
 
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In our application we want process a message which is a string but application can not process message which are more than 32 KB size.So for this we need to check the size of the message.
 
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rini john wrote:In our application we want process a message which is a string but application can not process message which are more than 32 KB size.So for this we need to check the size of the message.



may be what you need. I would suggest that you use "utf-8" for the encoding but depending on the language you are processing you may find another encoding gives you a shorter resulting set of bytes.
 
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String has a few getBytes() methods, that will return a byte array given a character set. You can then get the length of it.

Edit: or what James said .
 
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thanks......
 
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