Character limit of a javascript string variable

Question

Can JavaScript string store 100K characters? I\'ve written a script where a string from PHP is passed to a variable in JavaScript. It works fine when it is cut short to almost

Answer 1

I think the question is asking about the practical limit, not the spec limit. And, no, it is not always the amount of RAM you have. I have x86_64 24GB PC running Linux Mint with x86_64 Firefox and x86_64 Chrome, and the limits I ran into were:

• 1,073,741,822 limit in Firefox 84
• 536,870,888 limit in Chrome 87

Any higher and Firefox throws a Uncaught RangeError: repeat count must be less than infinity and not overflow maximum string size, whereas Chrome throws Uncaught RangeError: Invalid string length. Use the following snippet to run a binary search for the max string length in your browser:

for (var startPow2 = 1; startPow2 < 9007199254740992; startPow2 *= 2)
    try {" ".repeat(startPow2);} catch(e) {
        break;
    }

var floor = Math.floor, mask = floor(startPow2 / 2);
while (startPow2 = floor(startPow2 / 2))
    try {
        " ".repeat(mask + startPow2);
        mask += startPow2; // the previous statement succeeded
    } catch(e) {}

console.log("The max string length for this browser is " + mask);