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toString

Converts a value to a string. Lucee parses numbers with one decimal place. complex object types can only be used in combination with the member syntax.

toString(any_value [, encoding])

returns string

Member Function Syntax

any_value.toString()

Argument Reference

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description	Values
any_value	any	Yes		Value to convert to a string
encoding	string	No		The character encoding (character set) of the string. The default value is the encoding of the page on which the function is called.	/Users/garethedwards/development/github/cfdocs/docs/functions/tostring.md	utf-16

Base64 value to binary to string

base64Value = toBase64( "stringValue" );
binaryValue = toBinary( base64Value );
stringValue = toString( binaryValue );
writeOutput(stringValue);

Expected Result: Expected Result: stringValue

Structure to String

s = {
    "a": "1",
    "b":"2"
};
writeOutput(toString(s));

Expected Result: {a={1},b={2}}

Member syntax

CF number toString as a method CAUTION: While CF returns an integer (42), Lucee returns a double (42.0), that’s because while CF stores the value as java.lang.Integer (CF2018+) resp. java.lang.String (CF2016+), Lucee calls this method on java.lang.Double.

num = 42;
writeOutput(num.toString());

Expected Result: 42

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