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tostring

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 value has a __tostring metamethod, then it will be called with value as the only argument and will return the result.

tostring(value): string

Arguments

NameDescriptionType
valueThe value to convert to a string.unknown

Returns string