public int GetLength(string str) { if (str.Length == 0) return 0; ASCIIEncoding ascii = new ASCIIEncoding(); int tempLen = 0; byte[] s = ascii.GetBytes(str); for (int i = 0; i < s.Length; i++) { if ((int)s[i] == 63) tempLen += 2; else tempLen += 1; } return tempLen; }