# How to convert Array Any to String?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-convert-array-any-to-string/5951>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** arrays, convert\
**Created:** [September 18, 2017, 5:59pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-convert-array-any-to-string/5951 "2017-09-18T17:59:20Z")\
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How to convert Array Any to String ?

julia\> x=[1,2,3,“a”]  
4-element Array{Any,1}:  
1  
2  
3  
“a”

julia\> convert(Array{String},x)  
ERROR: MethodError: Cannot `convert` an object of type Int64 to an object of type String  
This may have arisen from a call to the constructor String(…),  
since type constructors fall back to convert methods.  
in copy!(::Base.LinearFast, ::Array{String,1}, ::Base.LinearFast, ::Array{Any,1}) at .\abstractarray.jl:559  
in convert(::Type{Array{String,N}}, ::Array{Any,1}) at .\array.jl:235  
Paul

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```julia
julia> x=[1,2,3,"a"]
4-element Array{Any,1}:
 1   
 2   
 3   
  "a"

julia> string.(x)
4-element Array{String,1}:
 "1"
 "2"
 "3"
 "a"

```