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How many bytes in a JavaScript string?

I have a javascript string which is about 500K when being sent from the server in UTF-8. How can I tell its size in JavaScript?

I know that JavaScript uses UCS-2, so does that mean 2 bytes per character. However, does it depend on the JavaScript implementation? Or on the page encoding or maybe content-type?

Solution

  • You can use the Blob to get the string size in bytes.

    Examples:

    console.info(
  new Blob(['😂']).size,                             // 4
  new Blob(['👍']).size,                             // 4
  new Blob(['😂👍']).size,                           // 8
  new Blob(['👍😂']).size,                           // 8
  new Blob(['I\'m a string']).size,                  // 12

  // from Premasagar correction of Lauri's answer for
  // strings containing lone characters in the surrogate pair range:
  // https://stackoverflow.com/a/39488643/6225838
  new Blob([String.fromCharCode(55555)]).size,       // 3
  new Blob([String.fromCharCode(55555, 57000)]).size // 4 (not 6)
);