Asp.net String.Length counting return as 2 chars?

Question

Im counting characters of a message from a textbox that will be sent as an sms, I've noticed that txtBody.Text.Length is counting more characters for returns, understand i want to keep the formatting of a newline but .net is counting 2 characters for this is there any way to keep the new line but get the counter to be accurate or is a return itself 2 characters ???

Answer 1

The newline in windows is indeed 2 characters - CrLf - ASCII 13 followed by ASCII 10.

You can simply decrement 2 from the returned Length, or get a count of all Environment.NewLine, double that by 2 and decrement from the Length.