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# Copyright (c) 2010 The Mirah project authors. All Rights Reserved.
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#
# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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/**
* Java encodes strings in UTF-16, which represents each character with one
* or two 16-bit values. The length method of String objects returns the
* number of 16-bit values used to encode a string, so the number of bytes
* can be determined by doubling that number.
*/

s = "Hello, world!"
puts s.length() * 2

/**
* Another way to know the byte length of a string is to explicitly
* specify the charset we desire.
*/
puts s.getBytes("UTF-16").length
puts s.getBytes("UTF-8").length

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mirah-0.1.4-java examples/rosettacode/string-length.mirah
mirah-0.1.3-java examples/rosettacode/string-length.mirah
mirah-0.1.2-java examples/rosettacode/string-length.mirah
mirah-0.1.1-java examples/rosettacode/string-length.mirah
mirah-0.1.0-java examples/rosettacode/string-length.mirah
mirah-0.1.0.pre-java examples/rosettacode/string-length.mirah