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instance method

Fiddle::Pointer#to_str

to_str(p1 = v1)
Example
ptr.to_str        => string
ptr.to_str(len)   => string

Returns the pointer contents as a string.

When called with no arguments, this method will return the contents with the length of this pointer’s size.

When called with len, a string of len bytes will be returned.

See to_s

See also #to_s #to_value #to_int also in 3.4 · 3.2 · 3.1 · 3.0