Haskell : Type casting Int to String

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Published on 2010-05-06T20:32:21Z Indexed on 2010/05/06 20:38 UTC
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I know you can convert a String to an number with read like so:

Prelude> read "3" :: Int

3

Prelude> read "3" :: Double

3.0

But how do you grab the string representation of an Int value?

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