stringify

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
English string
Latin -i-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *θakos
Proto-Italic *-fakos
Latin -ficus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.
Proto-Italic *-ājō
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin -ficō
Latin -ificāreder.
Old French -ifierbor.
Middle English -ifien
English -ify
English stringify

    From string + -ify.

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    Pronunciation

    Verb

    stringify (third-person singular simple present stringifies, present participle stringifying, simple past and past participle stringified)Category:English lemmas#STRINGIFYCategory:English verbs#STRINGIFYCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#STRINGIFYCategory:Pages with entries#STRINGIFYCategory:Pages with 1 entry#STRINGIFY

    1. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#STRINGIFY, programmingCategory:en:Programming#STRINGIFY) To convert to a textual representation.
      Antonyms: destring, destringify
      Hypernym: serialize
      To find the first digit in a positive number, stringify it and take the first character.
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      • 2009, John Paul Mueller, Jeff Cogswell, C++ All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 662:
        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 template: […]
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    Derived terms

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