tostring

Converts values of any snumeric data type to values of type string.

Available in version 5.2.0 and later.

Prototype

	function tostring (
		input_val  : snumeric data type   
	)

	return_val [dimsizes(input_val)] :  string

Arguments

A variable of any snumeric data type of any dimension.

Return value

Returns strings. The dimensionality of the output matches that of the input.

Description

This function converts any snumeric data to string values.

Attributes, with the exception of _FillValue, are not propagated by the conversion functions.

See Also

tochar, tobyte, toshort, toushort, toint, touint, tolong, toulong, toint64, touint64, tostring_with_format, totype

Examples

Example

 short_array = new((/2,2/), short)
 short_array = 215h
 print(short_array)
 short2string = tostring(short_array)
 print(short2string)

 ushort_array = new((/2,2/), ushort)
 ushort_array = 8924H
 print(ushort_array)
 ushort2string = tostring(ushort_array)
 print(ushort2string)

 int_array = new((/2,2/), integer)
 int_array = 2147483640
 print(int_array)
 int2string = tostring(int_array)
 print(int2string)

 uint_array = new((/2,2/), uint)
 uint_array = 2147483649I
 print(uint_array)
 uint2string = tostring(uint_array)
 print(uint2string)

 long_array = new((/2,2/), long)
 long_array = 2147483641l
 print(long_array)
 long2string = tostring(long_array)
 print(long2string)

 ulong_array = new((/2,2/), ulong)
 ulong_array = 2147483649L
 print(ulong_array)
 ulong2string = tostring(ulong_array)
 print(ulong2string)

 int64_array = new((/2,2/), int64)
 int64_array = 9223372028264841214q
 print(int64_array)
 int642string = tostring(int64_array)
 print(int642string)

 uint64_array = new((/2,2/), uint64)
 uint64_array = 9223372028264841219Q
 print(uint64_array)
 uint642string = tostring(uint64_array)
 print(uint642string)

 float_array = new((/2,2/), float)
 float_array = 1.2384
 print(float_array)
 float2string = tostring(float_array)
 print(float2string)


 double_array = new((/2,2/), double)

 double_array = 12.94
 print(double_array)
 double2string = tostring(double_array)
 print(double2string)

 double_array = 1238278456.02394
 print(double_array)
 double2string = tostring(double_array)
 print(double2string)