SYNOPSIS string to_string(mixed) (string) 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 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)