Length of the String without using length() method [closed]

Answer 1

You can use a loop to check every character position and catch the IndexOutOfBoundsException when you pass the last character. But why?

public int slowLength(String myString) {
    int i = 0;
    try {
        while (true) {
            myString.charAt(i);
            i++;
        }
    } catch (IndexOutOfBoundsException e) {
       return i;
    }
}

Note: This is very bad programming practice and very inefficient.

You can use reflection to examine the internal variables in the String class, specifically count.