Method: Kernel#String

Defined in:
object.c

#String(object) ⇒ Object

Returns a string converted from object.

Tries to convert object to a string using to_str first and to_s second:

String([0, 1, 2])        # => "[0, 1, 2]"
String(0..5)             # => "0..5"
String({foo: 0, bar: 1}) # => "{foo: 0, bar: 1}"

Raises TypeError if object cannot be converted to a string.

Returns:

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# File 'object.c', line 3860

static VALUE
rb_f_string(VALUE obj, VALUE arg)
{
    return rb_String(arg);
}