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## SYNOPSIS

tostring(e)

## 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.

## EXAMPLE

>
test = 5
>
print(type(test))
number
>
test = tostring(test)
>
print(type(test))
string

## SEE ALSO

string.format