Question

How to get a size of String in 64 bits(not bytes)in big endian order)?
I have never done this kind of operations in Java. Thanks for any help : ).

Answer 1

Java works internally always using BigEndian order even if the platform like x86 uses LittleEndian.

In Java 64bit values are stored in the long data type.

Now the final question is what you want to measure. In a String you can count the number of characters, or the number of bytes the String takes when encoding it using a specified encoding (e.g UTF-8, UTF-16, ISO-8859-1, …).

Assuming you want to count the number of characters in a String and you want to get the number as a 64bit number you can use the following code:

String myString = "abcdefgh";
long charCount = myString.length;

If you want to write charCount into a file or into a network connection you can use DataOutputStream for getting a BigEndian representation:

DataOutputStream out = new DataOutputStream(streamToWriteTo);
out.writeLong(charCount);