byteLen()?

[Mark Waddingham]

Hi Richard,

No, there is no such function as the byte length is a property of text which has been encoded with a specific encoding, not text in general.

the number of bytes in textEncode(tText, kEncoding)

Should give you what you need.

Warmest Regards,

Mark.

Sent from my iPhone

> On 9 Mar 2017, at 02:37, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> the len() function returns a character count, but with Unicode this may be very different than the byte size.
> 
> Do we have a size() or byteLen() function?
> 
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