Easiest way to turn a substring into a string?

[djsegal]

Sometimes I’m dealing with a function that only wants a String and not an AbstractString.

// this usually occurs if you use someone else’s code and you have a SubString

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Is there a surefire way to convert a SubString to a String?

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[JeffreySarnoff]

String(x::SubString) does that, and you can broadcast String if helpful

[djsegal]

This didn’t work. I just used this hack instead:

Foo.bar(string::AbstractString) = Foo.bar(String(string))

[Tamas_Papp]

This is not a hack, but a very standard pattern, along the lines of

foo(x::SomeTypeICanDealWith) = ...

foo(x::SomeBroaderType) = foo(make_some_type_I_can_deal_with(x))

[nilshg]

How this different from what @JeffreySarnoff suggested?