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Add String Interpolation With Just About Anything as an elixir til

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