Hi,

I believe that all objects (including String) have a native property
"length"...
For instance:

var myString = "12345678";
var myLen = myString.length;

myLen would be... 8

The length of a querystring (the one total length of an URL) I believe has
some limitation, not sure, but think around 4096 bytes...

Another thing to remember: today many operating systems uses unicode,
which actually uses 2 bytes per char - in "old days" one byte was equal
to one char! :-)

Cheers

Sten Hougaard
EDB Gruppen, Denmark



                                                                                                                   
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Does anyone know how to show the length of a string in bytes?

I have a string but I cant pass it through my browser, My suspision is that
it is too large to post, Anybody know how to display that value with
JavaScript? (Of course I can cut and paste it into notepad and see the size
of the file to get a rough idea, but that isnt fun ;))



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