Re: Counting the number of bytes used by characters of a String

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From: Jon Skeet [C# MVP] (skeet_at_pobox.com)
Date: 12/12/04 

Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 21:23:24 -0000

Nicolas <nicolas@serpe.org> wrote:
> > In what encoding? In the CLR itself, or in a particular encoding?
>
> Just as it is, I mean the space it takes on RAM.
> I think a String class stores a string as an array of char, just want to
> know what place this array occupies.

It's not actually an array of char itself - string is a very unusual
type, in that the size of the object itself depends on the contents.

I believe the size of the object is 20+(n/2)*4 where n is the number of
characters in the string. (The result of n/2 is rounded down.) 

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