string(value)

Returns the value, coerced to a string.

This typically calls the object’s toString method, but with some special cases:

• If the value is an ArrayBuffer (e.g., returned from a web request) or TypedArray, then this call decodes the value as UTF-8 text.
• If the object’s underlying toString method is the degenerate implementation of Object.toString() (which normally returns the text “[object Object]”), this method returns null instead. The principle is that it’s better for this method to essentially fail than for it to return a useless string.