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title: String.prototype.toSource()
slug: Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/toSource
translation_of: Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/toSource
---
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<p>The <strong><code>toSource()</code></strong> method returns a string representing the source code of the object.</p>

<h2 id="문법">문법</h2>

<pre class="syntaxbox"><code>String.toSource()
<var>str</var>.toSource()
</code></pre>

<h3 id="리턴_값">리턴 값</h3>

<p>호출한 객체의 소스코드가 <code>string</code>으로 보여집니다.</p>

<h2 id="설명">설명</h2>

<p><code>toSource()</code> 메소드는 다음 값을 리턴:</p>

<p>For the built-in {{jsxref("String")}} object, <code>toSource()</code> returns the following string indicating that the source code is not available:</p>

<pre class="brush: js">function String() {
    [native code]
}
</pre>

<p>For instances of {{jsxref("String")}} or string literals, <code>toSource()</code> returns a string representing the source code.</p>

<p>This method is usually called internally by JavaScript and not explicitly in code.</p>

<h2 id="Specifications">Specifications</h2>

<p>Not part of any standard. Implemented in JavaScript 1.3.</p>

<h2 id="Browser_compatibility">Browser compatibility</h2>

<p class="hidden">The compatibility table in this page is generated from structured data. If you'd like to contribute to the data, please check out <a href="https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data">https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data</a> and send us a pull request.</p>

<p>{{Compat("javascript.builtins.String.toSource")}}</p>

<h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>

<ul>
 <li>{{jsxref("Object.prototype.toSource()")}}</li>
</ul>