Mono Class Library: System.Text.StringBuilder Overview | Members

System.Text.StringBuilder.EnsureCapacity Method

Ensures that the capacity of the current instance is at least a specified value.

public int EnsureCapacity (int capacity)

Parameters

capacity
A int containing the minimum capacity to ensure.

Returns

A int equal to the new StringBuilder.Capacity of the current instance.

Exceptions

TypeReason
ArgumentOutOfRangeExceptioncapacity is less zero.

Remarks

If the specified value is less than the current StringBuilder.Capacity, no changes are made and StringBuilder.Capacity remains the same.

Note: For performance reasons, the new StringBuilder.Capacity might be larger than the specified value. The amount of memory allocated by this method is implementation specific.

Requirements

Namespace: System.Text
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
Assembly Versions: 1.0.5000.0, 2.0.0.0