src/main/java/freemarker/core/BuiltInForString.java

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package freemarker.core;

import freemarker.template.TemplateException;
import freemarker.template.TemplateModel;

abstract class BuiltInForString extends BuiltIn {
    @Override
    TemplateModel _eval(Environment env)
    throws TemplateException {
        return calculateResult(getTargetString(target, env), env);
    }
    abstract TemplateModel calculateResult(String s, Environment env) throws TemplateException;
    
    static String getTargetString(Expression target, Environment env) throws TemplateException {
        return target.evalAndCoerceToStringOrUnsupportedMarkup(env);
    }
    
}