25.5.5  Converting giac expressions to strings

The string command converts an expression to a string.

• string takes expr, an expression.
• string(expr) evaluates expr then converts it to a string.

Examples

This is the same thing as entering ifactor(6)+"", i.e. adding the empty string to the expression.

If you want to convert an unevaluated expression to a string, you can quote the expression (see Section 9.1.4):