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  <command>
    <title>Sprint</title>
    <short_description>convert to a string</short_description>

    <description>
This function takes any CoCoA expression and converts its value to a
string.  One use is to check for extremely long output before printing
in a CoCoA window.

<example>
  Use R ::= Q[x,y];
  I := Ideal(x,y);
  J := Sprint(I);
  I;
Ideal(x, y)
-------------------------------
  J;          -- The output for I and J looks the same, but ...
Ideal(x, y)
-------------------------------
  Type(I);   -- I is an ideal, and
IDEAL
-------------------------------
  Type(J);  -- J is just the string <quotes>Ideal(x, y)</quotes>.
STRING
-------------------------------
  J[1];  -- the 1st character of J
I
-------------------------------
  J[2];  -- the 2nd character of J
d
-------------------------------
  Len(J);  -- J has 11 characters
11
-------------------------------
</example>
    </description>

    <syntax>
Sprint(E:OBJECT):STRING
</syntax>

    <see>Introduction to IO</see>
    <see>IO.SprintTrunc</see>
    <see>Print</see>
    <see>PrintLn</see>

    <type>io</type>
    <type>printing</type>
    <type>string</type>

    <key>sprint</key>
  </command>