How many characters can fit in a c++ string?

Question

I need to store in a variable, kilobytes or even megabytes of plain text, so I want to know how many characters can fit in a standard string (aka std::string plus string library).

Answer 1

std::string has the member function max_size() which returns the maximum length of a std::string in that implementation.

Answer 2

It depends on your implementation. Try calling std::string::max_size() and find out.