stringify

English

Etymology

string +‎ -ify

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɹɪŋɪfaɪ/

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Verb

stringify (third-person singular simple present stringifies, present participle stringifying, simple past and past participle stringified)

1. (transitive, programming) To convert to a textual representation.

   To find the first digit in a positive number, stringify it and take the first character.

   • 2009, John Paul Mueller, Jeff Cogswell, C++ All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 662:

     For example, when you stringify a data type (turn the data type into its string representation), the technique differs based on data type. For example, when you want to stringify an int, you might use the following template: […]

Synonyms

• serialize

Related terms

• stringification
• stringize
• stringly-typed