Gets the maximum number of characters produced by decoding a specified number of bytes.
[Visual Basic] Overrides Public Function GetMaxCharCount( _ ByVal byteCount As Integer _ ) As Integer [C#] public override int GetMaxCharCount( int byteCount ); [C++] public: override int GetMaxCharCount( int byteCount ); [JScript] public override function GetMaxCharCount( byteCount : int ) : int;
The maximum number of characters.
This method can be used to determine an appropriate buffer size for character arrays passed to the GetChars or the GetBytes method of a Decoder for this encoding.
All encoding must guarantee that no buffer overflow exceptions will occur if buffers are sized according to the results of this method.
ASCIIEncoding Class | ASCIIEncoding Members | System.Text Namespace