ASCIIEncoding.GetMaxCharCount Method

The GetCharCount method calculates the exact array size required by the GetChars method to store the resulting characters, whereas the GetMaxCharCount method calculates the maximum array size. The GetCharCount method generally allocates less memory, but the GetMaxCharCount method generally executes faster.

GetMaxCharCount retrieves a worst-case number, including the worst case for the currently selected DecoderFallback. If a decoder fallback is present that has a maximum fallback length of n, the GetMaxCharCount method returns n * byteCount.

GetMaxCharCount has no relation to GetBytes. If your application needs a similar function to use with GetBytes, it should use GetMaxByteCount.

Note
GetMaxCharCount(N) is not necessarily the same value as N* GetMaxCharCount(1).

The following example demonstrates how to use the GetMaxCharCount method to calculate the maximum number of characters needed to decode a specified number of bytes.

using System;
using System.Text;

class ASCIIEncodingExample {
    public static void Main() {
        ASCIIEncoding ascii = new ASCIIEncoding();
        int byteCount = 8;
        int maxCharCount = ascii.GetMaxCharCount(byteCount);
        Console.WriteLine(
            "Maximum of {0} characters needed to decode {1} bytes.",
            maxCharCount,
            byteCount
        );
    }
}

.NET Framework

.NET Framework Client Profile

Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows XP SP2 x64 Edition, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2

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