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# String Interpolation With Just About Anything
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Coming to Elixir from Ruby, I am used to being able to interpolate literally
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_anything_ into a string. In Elixir, this is not the case.
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> By default, it handles strings, atoms (including nil, true, false and
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> module name aliases like String – which are all just atoms behind the
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> scenes), integers, floats, and some lists. That's it.
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There are two approaches you can take to interpolate everything else into a
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string. The easier approach is to use
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[`Kernel.inspect/2`](http://elixir-lang.org/docs/stable/elixir/Kernel.html#inspect/2).
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```elixir
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> IO.puts "A map #{inspect %{a: 1, b: 2}}"
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A map %{a: 1, b: 2}
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```
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The other approach is to implement the `String.Chars` protocol for the thing
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that you are trying to print. You can read more about that in [_Elixir
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String Interpolation for
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Rubyists_](http://thepugautomatic.com/2016/01/elixir-string-interpolation-for-the-rubyist/).
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