C# string bytes

Question

Can anyone tell me the number of bytes each string takes in C#?

That is: if I have:

string value = "thisIsMyName"

Then, how many bytes does the variable value take?

Because, if I have:

If I want to convert to convert value into into a c# byte array how many bytes does it take?

Tapan Patel · Answer

You can easily get it counted in C#.

Nitin Sontakke · Answer

Because you are using Encoding.ASCII it is showing 4. If you use Encoding.Unicode it will show 8. Remember that by design and default Strings in C# are unicode hence double the count. Hope that helps!

Sahil Dev · Answer

Each character is taking 1 byte according to me Because if I have 4 characters : NONE the byte array returned through the below code has byte array of dimension 4.. Can anyone confirm if this is right? string val= NONE byte []b=Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(val);

Vishal Jadav · Answer

Hi I think each character in C# takes 2 bytes. I didn't know but after reading this question i googled and found that each character takes 2 bytes in C#. Thanks.

Midhun T P · Answer

Hi please go through below links. You will get an idea about strings and their sizes - http://www.dotnetperls.com/string-memory http://www.abstractpath.com/2012/size-of-a-csharp-string/ http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3967411/how-many-bytes-will-a-string-take-up