Maximum size of an string ?

Jean Christophe cybrarian at live.fr
Thu Nov 14 22:41:01 PST 2013


Than you Ali :0
I assume it is for UTF8 encoding.
That's quite large enough.

JC

On Thursday, 14 November 2013 at 11:50:28 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> On 11/14/2013 02:10 AM, Jean Christophe wrote:
>
> > Has someone tested the maximum size of a D string variable
> for both 32
> > and 64 bits platforms ? Is it different from the maximum size
> of a char[] ?
>
> Both string and char[] are implemented in the same way: a 
> size_t for length and a pointer to data. (D arrays know their 
> sizes.)
>
> So, the theoretical limit for both are size_t, which is the 
> equivalent of uint or ulong dependending on 32-bit versus 
> 64-bit.
>
> Ali



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