Date: 11/08/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: no keywords

Length of string can be interpreted variously - number of chars in the string number of characters in the string number of bytes in the string String.length() gives you the number of chars in the string accurately. However a char is not necessarily a complete character. Why? Supplementary characters exist in the Unicode charset. These are characters that have [...]

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