# formats.text.TmuxText.as_str

- **Module:** formats.text.TmuxText
- **Package:** libtmux
- **Language:** Rust
- **Kind:** method
- **Source:** https://github.com/libtmux/libtmux-rs/blob/8a648c0894dfffc9303583f753b6c8ae01f2fe76/crates/libtmux/src/formats/text.rs#L74
- **Page:** https://libtmux.org/reference/rs/formats-text-tmuxtext-as_str/

```
formats.text.TmuxText.as_str(self) -> Result<&str, std::str::Utf8Error>
```

Borrow the stored bytes as UTF-8.

# Errors

Returns [`std::str::Utf8Error`] when the stored bytes are not valid
UTF-8.

## Example

```rust
use libtmux::TmuxText;

let text = TmuxText::from("session");
assert_eq!(text.as_str(), Ok("session"));
```