How many bytes can the string

Question

Hi,
I have the problem to create the String with the lenght longer than 2 MBytes.
For instance :
byte[] b = new byte[10*1024*1024);
len = b.length;
String s = new String(b,0,len);
Any helps are appreciated.
PS: Pls assume b contains a data e.g. 7*1024*1024 and has the length of 7*1024*1024, everthing is ok until the String can not be instanstiated.
Regards
Paulus

Answer 1

I have the problem to create the String with the lenght longer than 2 MBytes.What do you mean - what kind of problem? This works just fine:public class test {
    public static void main(String args[]) {
        byte[] b = new byte[10 * 1024 * 1024];
        for (int j = 0; j < b.length; j++) {
            b[j] = 97;
        String s = new String(b) + "b";
        System.out.println(s);
}(although running did require setting the max. heap size bigger... :)