HT4489 How do you find out the size of a contact card?

The old Mobile Me service had lots of issues with the number of contacts you could have. Now it seems that with this info: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4489
iCloud: Limits for Contacts, Calendars, Reminders, and Bookmarks
Apple has tried to inform us about the limits you can have. None the less it does not tell you how to ( for instance) know the size of the memory taken by ( contacts). So they have given us guidance but no way to know how to use it or check it. Can anybody advice how to measure the size of contacts ( for instance).? For business users this could be important. Thanks in advance for any assistance. Guy M.

Address Book's own database will be differently structured from an exported vCard so it's not really worth tampering with that.
The vCard is a series of fields separated by line returnes, with records being separated by BEING:VCARD and END:VCARD - a typical single simple card looks like this:
BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
N:National Film Theatre;;;;
FN:National Film Theatre
ORG:National Film Theatre;
TEL;type=WORK;type=pref:020 7928 3232 booking
TEL;type=WORK:020 7928 3535 prog planning
TEL;type=WORK:020 7815 1335 tech
TEL;type=WORK:020 7928 3233 booking
item1.ADR;type=WORK;type=pref:;;The Box Office\, BFI Southbank\nBelvedere Road\nSouth Bank;London;;SE1 8XT;
item1.X-ABADR:gb
X-ABUID:A1345405-E248-4B2B-906B-F5AFA5BF15CB\:ABPerson
END:VCARD
As you can see it's only a small amount of data - 464 bytes - so really I don't think you need to worry about the size of any individual entry except where photos are concerned - obviously they take up a lot more room. I checked a card with a typical small photo and the size was 5,137 bytes: so only quite a large photo is going to cause you any problems.
I don't know of any way of collecting statistics on the all-contacts vCard, except that if you converted it to a tab-delimited format and imported it into a spreadsheet or database program it would tell you the number of contacts.

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