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Description:: Converts any value into a string by placing " and " around the argument. When used on object, object debug name is returned.

Since Arma 3 v1.64 this command will correctly escape all " inside a string: // Before the fix: hint str "string "" string"; // "string " string" <- invalid string call compile str "string "" string"; // ERROR // After the fix: hint str "string "" string"; // "string "" string" <- valid string call compile str "string "" string"; // OK
Groups:: Strings

Example 1:: _s = str (2 + 3);// The value of _s is the string "5"
Example 2:: a = []; ac = 0; while {ac < 5} do { ac = count a; a set [ac, format ["Index %1", ac]]; }; hintSilent str a;// Hints all of ["Index 0","Index 1","Index 2","Index 3","Index 4"] including brackets, quotes and commas

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: Posted on September 29, 2009 - 20:17 (UTC)
Sbsmac: When applied to a unit, this returns the variable name that was assigned to the unit in the editor. For example, if you have created a playable unit with the name 'thePlayer' then you can use 'str player' to return "thePlayer";
: Posted on December 5, 2014 - 20:21 (UTC)
DreadedEntity: If you try to count string, the added quotations marks are valid characters and will be counted.

: Posted on July 15, 2017 - 09:59 (UTC)
Killzone Kid: If you want to make empty string with str that doesn't have any quotation marks, but is still a String you can use text: str ""; // "" count str ""; // 2 str text ""; // count str text ""; // 0
: Posted on February 16, 2021 - 20:59 (UTC)
R3vo: Be careful when using str on arrays and you are used to putting a whitespace behind every comma: str [0, 0, 0] == "[0, 0, 0]"; // false

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 <code>// Before the fix:
 [[hint]] [[str]] "string "" string"; // "string " string" <- invalid string
-[[call]] [[compile]] [[str]] "string "" string"; // ERROR</code>
+call [[compile]] [[str]] "string "" string"; // ERROR</code>
 <code>// After the fix:
@@ Line 44: / Line 44: @@
 	a [[set]] [ac, [[format]] ["Index %1", ac]];
 };
-[[hintSilent]] [[str]] a;// Hints all of ''["Index 0","Index 1","Index 2","Index 3","Index 4"]'' including brackets, quotes and commas</code>
+hintSilent [[str]] a;// Hints all of ''["Index 0","Index 1","Index 2","Index 3","Index 4"]'' including brackets, quotes and commas</code>
 |seealso= [[toArray]] [[toString]] [[isText]] [[select]] [[count]] [[find]] [[endl]] [[format]] [[formatText]]
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 [[count]] [[str]] ""; // 2
 [[str]] [[text]] ""; //
-[[count]] [[str]] [[text]] ""; // 0</code>
+count [[str]] [[text]] ""; // 0</code>
 </dd>