c# string size limit? length of string limit?

microsoft.public.dotnet.framework

19 Apr 2006 12:38 AM

Daniel

19 Apr 2006 3:53 AM

Carl Daniel [VC++ MVP]

Daniel wrote:

> c# string size limit? length of string limit?

All allocations in .NET are limited to 4GB in size, even on 64 bit
platforms. .NET strings store 16-bit Unicode (UCS-2) characters, so that's
2^31 characters, more or less. Of course, you'll probably run out of memory
long before then.

-cd