type string

[Marco Ivaldi]

Hi,
I need load in a string about 500 characters.
String type has a capacity of 256.
What type i can use?
Thanks!

 

[Paul E Collins]

I need load in a string about 500 characters.
String type has a capacity of 256.
What type i can use?

Where did you read 256? A string in C# can hold a lot more than that!

P.

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

I need load in a string about 500 characters.
String type has a capacity of 256.
What type i can use?

No, the string type most definitely *doesn't* have a capacity of only
256 characters. What makes you think it does?

 

[Vincent Finn]

Hi,
I need load in a string about 500 characters.
String type has a capacity of 256.
What type i can use?
Thanks!

You can use String
it can easily store more than 500 characters
There is no set capacity for it except the memory on your machine

I don't know where you got the 256 limit from but it's not true

Vin

 

[Cowboy \(Gregory A. Beamer\) [MVP]]

Strings can be much bigger. If you cannot load at once, consider chunking it
in. As an example:

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
sb.Append("12345678901234567890");
sb.Append("12345678901234567890");
sb.Append("12345678901234567890");
sb.Append("12345678901234567890");
sb.Append("12345678901234567890");
sb.Append("12345678901234567890");
sb.Append("12345678901234567890");
sb.Append("12345678901234567890");
sb.Append("12345678901234567890");
sb.Append("12345678901234567890");
sb.Append("12345678901234567890");
sb.Append("12345678901234567890");
sb.Append("12345678901234567890");
sb.Append("12345678901234567890");
sb.Append("12345678901234567890");
sb.Append("12345678901234567890");
sb.Append("12345678901234567890");
sb.Append("12345678901234567890");
sb.Append("12345678901234567890");
sb.Append("12345678901234567890");
sb.Append("12345678901234567890");
sb.Append("12345678901234567890");
sb.Append("12345678901234567890");
sb.Append("12345678901234567890");
sb.Append("12345678901234567890");
sb.Append("12345678901234567890");
sb.Append("12345678901234567890");
....
string newString = sb.ToString();
Response.Write(newString);

--
Gregory A. Beamer
MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA

************************************************
Think Outside the Box!
************************************************

 

[cody]

a string can hold up to 2^32 (~2billion) characters in it.