# symbol to string?

**URL:** https://forum.kx.com/t/symbol-to-string/7149
**Category:** Community Support
**Tags:** kdb-and-q
**Created:** [May 12, 2011, 4:43am UTC](https://forum.kx.com/t/symbol-to-string/7149 "2011-05-12T04:43:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![ag12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@ag12](https://forum.kx.com/u/ag12)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2011, 4:43am UTC](https://forum.kx.com/t/symbol-to-string/7149/1 "2011-05-12T04:43:00Z")

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I couldn’t find it in here, where else could I have looked?&nbsp;https://code.kx.com/trac/wiki/QforMortals2/casting\_and\_enumerations

KDB+ 2.7 2011.04.30

q)a:`$“foo bar”

`foo bar

q)“c”$a

'type

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### Author: ![ag12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@ag12](https://forum.kx.com/u/ag12)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2011, 4:45am UTC](https://forum.kx.com/t/symbol-to-string/7149/2 "2011-05-12T04:45:00Z")

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doh found it:&nbsp;https://code.kx.com/trac/wiki/Reference/string

q)a:`$“foo bar”

q)string a

“foo bar”