What is the length in bytes of a NSString?

Question

How do I get the bytes length of NSString? if myString contains \"hallo\", myString.length will return 5, but how many actual bytes are ta

Answer 1

To get the bytes use

NSData *bytes = [string dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

Then you can check bytes.length

Number of bytes depend on the string encoding