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I'm trying to understand why you would ever use toString() on a string.
tutorialspoint.com gives this example.
<html>
<head>
<title>JavaScript String toString() Method</title>
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
var str = "Apples are round, and Apples are Juicy.";
document.write(str.toString( ));
</script>
</body>
</html>
Why not just use
document.write(str);
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toString() method doesn't make any practical sense when called on a "pure" sring, like "Apples are round, and Apples are Juicy.".
It may be useful when you need to get the string representation of some non-string value.
// Example:
var x = new String(1000); // converting number into a String object
console.log(typeof x); // object
console.log(typeof x.toString()); // string
console.log(x.toString()); // "1000"
The String object overrides the toString() method of the Object object; it does not inherit Object.prototype.toString(). For String objects, the toString() method returns a string representation of the object and is the same as the String.prototype.valueOf() method.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/toString
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Even if you don't use the toString function, it is invoked (implicitly) to get the value that is used for the document.write() function.
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