Built-in Mathematica Symbol

ToString

ToString[expr]
gives a string corresponding to the printed form of expr in OutputForm.

ToString[expr, form]
gives the string corresponding to output in the specified form.

Give a string corresponding to the OutputForm of x²:

Give a string corresponding to the InputForm:

Give a string corresponding to the OutputForm of x²:

Give a string corresponding to the InputForm:

Non-default character encoding:

String representation of boxes:

Generate a string using the default encoding:

Use ASCII encoding instead:

Use FormatType to change the formatting:

Use the default setting of InputForm formatting:

Explicitly set whether number marks should be included:

By default the page width is infinite:

Wrap to a new line after 9 characters in the string:

Construct an indexed set of variables:

Export data to files with programmatically created names:

Use ToExpression to convert strings or boxes to expressions:

Use ToBoxes to convert expressions to boxes:

Use ToString with ToExpression to convert TeX to Mathematica syntax:

Use StringLength to find a string's length:

Use Characters to extract the individual characters:

ToString uses definitions from Format and MakeBoxes:

ToString by default uses OutputForm formatting:

Specify other formats to preserve styling information: