Expressions in the Wolfram Language can be represented as strings in a variety of ways, for display, export, or processing. The Wolfram Language provides powerful functions for formatting expressions as strings, and for parsing strings to determine the expressions they represent.

ToString — convert any expression to a string

ToExpression — convert a string to an expression

TextString — give a human-readable string version of an expression, eliding as needed

Format Types »

InputForm  ▪  OutputForm  ▪  StandardForm  ▪  TraditionalForm  ▪  TeXForm  ▪  DisplayForm  ▪  ...

SyntaxQ, SyntaxLength — test syntactic correctness of input strings

ImportString — import strings in many file and other formats to give expressions

ExportString — export expressions to give many formats of strings

StringFormat  ▪  Hash

Interpreter — define how a string should be interpreted

SemanticInterpretation — interpret a string semantically with a particular target

SemanticImportString — interpret a string semantically as a structured dataset

LLM-Based Operations »

LLMResourceFunction — convert to or from text using prewritten prompts

LLMFunction  ▪  LLMExampleFunction  ▪  LLMSynthesize  ▪  ...

Special Conversions

IntegerString — convert an integer to a string

DateList, DateString — convert between string and list forms of dates

Symbol, SymbolName — convert between strings and symbols

SpokenString — convert to a spoken representation of an expression

LetterNumber, FromLetterNumber — convert a to 1, b to 2, etc.

Images

ImageSynthesize — synthesize an image from a textual description

ImageContents — generate a textual description of the content of an image