Casting to string in JavaScript

Question

I found three ways to cast a variable to String in JavaScript.
I searched for those three options in the jQuery source code, and they are all in use

Answer 1

There are differences, but they are probably not relevant to your question. For example, the toString prototype does not exist on undefined variables, but you can cast undefined to a string using the other two methods:

​var foo;

​var myString1 = String(foo); // "undefined" as a string

var myString2 = foo + ''; // "undefined" as a string

var myString3 = foo.toString(); // throws an exception

http://jsfiddle.net/f8YwA/