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SYNOPSIS
string to_string(mixed)

(string)<value>

DESCRIPTION
The argument is converted to a string. Works with int, float,
object, arrays, structs, symbols, strings, and closures.

Converts closures and structs into an appropriate name (this
has mostly debugging purposes).

CAVEAT: Arrays are considered exploded strings, ie. arrays of char
codes, and are 'imploded' up to the first non-number entry, whatever
comes first. That means that to_string( ({ 49, 50 }) ) will return
"12" and not "({ 49, 50 })".

BUGS
The cast notation only works if the precise type of <value>
is known at compile-time. This will not be fixed - use the
function form instead.

HISTORY
LDMud 3.2.8 adds lambda closures to the accepted data types.
LDMud 3.3.250 adds structs to the accepted data types.

SEE ALSO
to_array(E), to_int(E), to_object(E), to_struct(E), sprintf(E)