Sizeof For Java

[rini john]

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....

Thanks

[James Sabre]

The short answer is 'no' but you might get a different answer if you explain why you think you need this.

[Wouter Oet]

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).

[rini john]

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.

[James Sabre]

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.

"your string".getBytes("the desired encoding").length

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.

[Matthew Brown]

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 .

[rini john]

thanks......