stringify
To convert to a textual representation.
Verb
- To convert to a textual representation.
- To find the first digit in a positive number, stringify it and take the first character.
- 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...
Antonyms: destring destringify
Hypernyms: serialize
Origin
Etymology tree English string Latin -i- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-fakāō Latin -ficō Latin -ificāreder. Old French -ifierbor. Middle English -ifien English -ify English stringify From string + -ify.