• seany (10/10) Nov 13 2023 Hello
• Alexandru Ermicioi (3/6) Nov 14 2023 Perhaps, use length property of string. It should tell you length
• novice2 (3/3) Nov 14 2023 may be std.string.representation() may help?

seany <seany uni-bonn.de> writes:

Hello


Let's assume, that we have a string array : string[] sa;

I fill up the array with random strings with random lengths.

I want to know how much space it occupies in memory.

I could go over the string array using a for loop, then another 
loop for each character, and then sum up char.sizeof. But this 
would be very slow and inefficient.

Is there a better way? I want a method that works for every 
variable type including classes and objects.

Thank you

Alexandru Ermicioi <alexandru.ermicioi gmail.com> writes:

On Monday, 13 November 2023 at 14:15:31 UTC, seany wrote:
 Is there a better way? I want a method that works for every 
 variable type including classes and objects.

 Thank you

Perhaps, use length property of string. It should tell you length 
of a string and then you multiply it by size of char.

novice2 <sorryno em.ail> writes:

may be std.string.representation() may help?
https://dlang.org/phobos/std_string.html#.representation

byteSize = representation(myString).length;