The normal model of Java string length String.length() is specified as returning the number of char values ("code units") in the String. That is the most generally useful definition of the length of a Java …

Dec 27, 2009 · Why do we have the length of an array as an attribute, array.length, and for String we have a method, str.length()? Is there some reason?

May 3, 2009 · Considering the String class' length method returns an int, the maximum length that would be returned by the method would be Integer.MAX_VALUE, which is 2^31 - 1 (or approximately 2 …

Dec 14, 2011 · By ignoring this, we might trim the string to fewer than 10 code points, or (worse) truncate it in the middle of a surrogate pair. On the other hand, String.length() is not the correct …

Nov 25, 2013 · size() is a method specified in java.util.Collection, which is then inherited by every data structure in the standard library. length is a field on any array (arrays are objects, you just don't see …

Jun 18, 2016 · No, the length of a java string is O (1) because java's string class stores the length as a field. The advice you've received is true of C, amongst other languages, but not java. C's strlen walks …

Jan 3, 2012 · The String class was probably one of the very first classes defined for Java, ever. It's possible (and this is just speculation) that the implementation used a .length() method before final …

Nov 26, 2009 · Sometimes you want to create a new string with a specified length, and with a default character filling the entire string. ie, it would be cool if you could do new String(10, '*') and create a …

But when you are using people[i].length(), you are accessing the string at that position of the array, and getting the length of the string, therefore using the .length() method in the String class. However, just …

Feb 7, 2019 · In Java, if I have a String x, how can I calculate the number of bytes in that string?