str

Builtin index · Collections & strings

result = str(x)

Input: x · Output: result

What it is

Renders x (any value/type) the same way print/disp would.

Overloads

One call shape — this function is not overloaded.

Code	Input	Output	Description
`result = str(x)`	`x` Strnot documented yet	`result` Str	Returns a `Str`.

Examples

From the documentation, and run by the build -- the output and the figure below are what the engine actually produced. Simplest first.

x = 1:10
print("sum = " + str(sum(x)))
write_report("summary.html")
print(file_exists("summary.html"))       # true

output

sum = 55
true

from file-io

df = table(a = randn(30, seed = 3), b = randn(30, seed = 4), c = randn(30, seed = 5))
eda(df)   # correlation heatmap + one histogram per numeric column, auto-gridded

print("columns: " + str(cols(df)))

output

columns: 3

from plotting

f = fopen("log.txt", "w")
write_line(f, "run started")
write_line(f, "value = " + str(42))
close(f)
print(file_size("log.txt"))    # 23 -- "run started\n" + "value = 42\n"

output

from file-io

m = randn(10, 10, seed = 4)
heatmap(m, colormap="viridis")
colorbar
title("Random field")
print("value range: [" + str(min(m)) + ", " + str(max(m)) + "]")

output

value range: [-2.270955, 2.7556]

from plotting

How it works

str(x) — render any value the same way print/disp would, as a string. Exists mainly so loop bodies can build per-iteration labels ("s" + str(i+1)) — see the + string-concat case in binop below, which this pairs with.

From the note above this builtin in the interpreter, where the reasoning was written down as it was built.