Method: Integer#to_s

Defined in:
numeric.c

#to_s(base = 10) ⇒ String Also known as: inspect

Returns a string containing the place-value representation of int with radix base (between 2 and 36).

12345.to_s       #=> "12345"
12345.to_s(2)    #=> "11000000111001"
12345.to_s(8)    #=> "30071"
12345.to_s(10)   #=> "12345"
12345.to_s(16)   #=> "3039"
12345.to_s(36)   #=> "9ix"
78546939656932.to_s(36)  #=> "rubyrules"

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# File 'numeric.c', line 3549

static VALUE
int_to_s(int argc, VALUE *argv, VALUE x)
{
    int base;

    if (rb_check_arity(argc, 0, 1))
	base = NUM2INT(argv[0]);
    else
	base = 10;
    return rb_int2str(x, base);
}