Convert address to string

Question

In Solidity, how can I convert the sender address to a string?

The comments in How to convert an address to bytes in Solidity? did not provide a working solution

Answer 1

Use abi.encodePacked(x)

where x is the address. (Thanks @k06a)

Answer 2

I was not able to read the ABI-encoded string with web3.js. Therefore, I added some conversion to the ASCII characters:

function toAsciiString(address x) internal pure returns (string memory) {
    bytes memory s = new bytes(40);
    for (uint i = 0; i < 20; i++) {
        bytes1 b = bytes1(uint8(uint(uint160(x)) / (2**(8*(19 - i)))));
        bytes1 hi = bytes1(uint8(b) / 16);
        bytes1 lo = bytes1(uint8(b) - 16 * uint8(hi));
        s[2*i] = char(hi);
        s[2*i+1] = char(lo);            
    }
    return string(s);
}

function char(bytes1 b) internal pure returns (bytes1 c) {
    if (uint8(b) < 10) return bytes1(uint8(b) + 0x30);
    else return bytes1(uint8(b) + 0x57);
}

Answer 3

This is method to convert address to hex string:

function toString(address account) public pure returns(string memory) {
    return toString(abi.encodePacked(account));
}

function toString(uint256 value) public pure returns(string memory) {
    return toString(abi.encodePacked(value));
}

function toString(bytes32 value) public pure returns(string memory) {
    return toString(abi.encodePacked(value));
}

function toString(bytes memory data) public pure returns(string memory) {
    bytes memory alphabet = "0123456789abcdef";

    bytes memory str = new bytes(2 + data.length * 2);
    str[0] = "0";
    str[1] = "x";
    for (uint i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
        str[2+i*2] = alphabet[uint(uint8(data[i] >> 4))];
        str[3+i*2] = alphabet[uint(uint8(data[i] & 0x0f))];
    }
    return string(str);
}

Answer 4

You can cast address to uint160, then use OpenZeppelin Strings library.

Strings.toHexString(uint160(address), 20)

Reference:

Casting address to uint

OpenZeppelin Strings for bytes

Answer 5

This works with solidity 0.6.0

function addressToString(address _pool) public pure returns (string memory _uintAsString) {
      uint _i = uint256(_pool);
      if (_i == 0) {
          return "0";
      }
      uint j = _i;
      uint len;
      while (j != 0) {
          len++;
          j /= 10;
      }
      bytes memory bstr = new bytes(len);
      uint k = len - 1;
      while (_i != 0) {
          bstr[k--] = byte(uint8(48 + _i % 10));
          _i /= 10;
      }
      return string(bstr);
    }