Tostring

Available since: Gideros 2011.6

Description

Receives an argument of any type and converts it to a string in a reasonable format. For complete control of how numbers are converted, use string.format.

If the metatable of e has a "__tostring" field, then tostring calls the corresponding value with e as argument, and uses the result of the call as its result.

(string) = tostring(e)

Parameters

e: (any) value to convert to string

Return values

Returns (string) value converted to string or nil