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<function name="tostring" parent="Global" type="libraryfunc">⤶ <description>⤶ Attempts to convert the value to a string. If the value is an object and its metatable has defined the __tostring metamethod, this will call that function.⤶ ⤶ <page>Global.print</page> also uses this functionality.⤶ </description>⤶ <realm>Shared and Menu</realm>⤶ <args>⤶ <arg name="value" type="any">The object to be converted to a string.</arg>⤶ </args>⤶ <rets>⤶ <ret name="" type="string">The string representation of the value.</ret>⤶ </rets>⤶ </function>⤶ ⤶ <example>⤶ <description>Convert a number to a string.</description>⤶ <code>print(tostring(0x16))</code>⤶ <output>22</output>⤶ ⤶ </example>