String

Common
JS
Native
1.2
@DeprecatedSinceKotlin ( "1.4" , "1.5" ) fun String (
chars : CharArray
) : String

(Common source) (JS source) (Native source)
Deprecated: Use CharArray.concatToString() instead
JVM
1.0
fun String ( chars : CharArray ) : String
(source)

Converts the characters in the specified array to a string.

Common
JS
Native
1.2
@DeprecatedSinceKotlin ( "1.4" , "1.5" ) fun String (
chars : CharArray ,
offset : Int ,
length : Int
) : String

(Common source) (JS source) (Native source)
Deprecated: Use CharArray.concatToString(startIndex, endIndex) instead
JVM
1.0
fun String (
chars : CharArray ,
offset : Int ,
length : Int
) : String

(source)

Converts the characters from a portion of the specified array to a string.

Exceptions

IndexOutOfBoundsException - if either offset or length are less than zero or offset + length is out of chars array bounds.

JVM
1.0
fun String (
bytes : ByteArray ,
offset : Int ,
length : Int ,
charset : Charset
) : String

(source)

Converts the data from a portion of the specified array of bytes to characters using the specified character set and returns the conversion result as a string.

Parameters

bytes - the source array for the conversion.

offset - the offset in the array of the data to be converted.

length - the number of bytes to be converted.

charset - the character set to use.

JVM
1.0
fun String ( bytes : ByteArray , charset : Charset ) : String
(source)

Converts the data from the specified array of bytes to characters using the specified character set and returns the conversion result as a string.

JVM
1.0
fun String (
bytes : ByteArray ,
offset : Int ,
length : Int
) : String

(source)

Converts the data from a portion of the specified array of bytes to characters using the UTF-8 character set and returns the conversion result as a string.

Parameters

bytes - the source array for the conversion.

offset - the offset in the array of the data to be converted.

length - the number of bytes to be converted.

JVM
1.0
fun String ( bytes : ByteArray ) : String
(source)

Converts the data from the specified array of bytes to characters using the UTF-8 character set and returns the conversion result as a string.

JVM
1.0
fun String (
codePoints : IntArray ,
offset : Int ,
length : Int
) : String

(source)

Converts the code points from a portion of the specified Unicode code point array to a string.

JVM
1.0
fun String ( stringBuffer : StringBuffer ) : String
(source)

Converts the contents of the specified StringBuffer to a string.

JVM
1.0
fun String ( stringBuilder : StringBuilder ) : String
(source)

Converts the contents of the specified StringBuilder to a string.