String.packsize

Available since: Gideros 2022.1
Class: string

Description

Returns the size in bytes of any string packed with a given description. <syntaxhighlight lang="lua"> (string) = string.packsize(format) </source>

You can't use s and z because they have variable lengths

Parameters

format: (string) the format used to pack the strings

Return values

Returns (number) the pack size

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