[External] : Re: MemorySegment APIs for reading and writing strings with known lengths

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

Going back to this... do you have a use case where you would like to 
know the byte length of a string encoded in a given charset?

Thanks!
Maurizio

On 10/11/2025 14:24, Maurizio Cimadamore wrote:
>
> I believe you. My hunch here would be to separate this one out, as it 
> has more to do with the Charset/String API than it has to do with 
> memory segments?
>
> E.g. you want an API like:
>
> String::getNumBytes(Charset)
>
> Whether this API exists or not seems orthogonal to the improvements 
> described in the documents I shared.
>