What is the maximum possible length of a .NET string?

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The theoretical limit may be 2,147,483,647, but the practical limit is nowhere near that. Since no single object in a .NET program may be over 2GB and the string type uses UTF-16 (2 bytes for each character), the best you could do is 1,073,741,823, but you’re not likely to ever be able to allocate that on a 32-bit machine.

This is one of those situations where “If you have to ask, you’re probably doing something wrong.”

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