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[[Property:title|Getting a STRING from a NUMERIC object]]
[[Property:link_title|NUMERIC to STRING]]
Every class has the <code>out</code> method that can be used to get a text version of the object. For a lot of class, this method return internal informations that are not really useful for the end user. But for every <code>NUMERIC</code> class, the <code>out</code> method return a text representation of the number that the <code>NUMERIC</code> object represents.

<code>
	print_integer(a_integer:INTEGER)
			-- Print the value of `a_integer'
		do
			print(a_integer.out + "%N")
		end
</code>

Note that for more advance convertion, you can also used convertion class like <code>FORMAT_DOUBLE</code>.