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instance method

String#bytesize

() -> ::Integer

bytesize → integer

VALUE
rb_str_bytesize(VALUE str)
{
    return LEN2NUM(RSTRING_LEN(str));
}

Returns the count of bytes in self.

Note that the byte count may be different from the character count (returned by size):

Example

s = 'foo'
s.bytesize # => 3
s.size     # => 3
s = 'こんにちは'
s.bytesize # => 15
s.size     # => 5

Related: see Querying.

See also #bytes #byteslice #byterindex #bytesplice also in 4.0 · 3.4 · 3.3 · 3.2 · 3.1 · 3.0