Calculate the size in bytes of a Swift String

Question

I\'m trying to calculate the size in bytes of a String in Swift but I don\'t know what the size of a character is; in how many bytes is one coded?

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Answer 1

It all depends on the character encoding, let's suppose UTF8:

let string = "abde"
let size = string.utf8.count

Note that not all characters have the same byte size in UTF8. If your string is ASCII, you can assume 1 byte per character.