getStringSafely

  • function
 

A safer version of toString(). To avoid getting 'NaN' or other non-real string values. It will coerce strings out of booleans, numbers, objects with their own toString() function, and of course strings.

Lang.getStringSafely(thing)

A safer version of toString(). To avoid getting 'NaN' or other non-real string values. It will coerce strings out of booleans, numbers, objects with their own toString() function, and of course strings.

Parameters

  1. thing

    {Boolean|String|Object} thing to be converted to string.

Returns

{string | null}

the coerced string, null if unable.