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## Overview
The **`name`** method of an encoding instance returns the string representation of an encoding. The string it returns is the name of the encoding.
## Syntax
```ruby
str.encoding.name
```
## Parameter
**`str`**: This parameter gets the encoding of a string.
## Return value
A string is returned, which is the encoding's name.
## Code example


# get and print the names of
# some encodings in Ruby

# encode some strings.
str1 = "Welcome to Edpresso".encode(Encoding::ISO_8859_1)

# get name of encoding
puts "The encoding name for \"#{str1}\" is #{str1.encoding.name}" 

## Explanation
* Line 5: We create a string and encode it in `ISO_8859_1`.
* Line 8: We print the string and get the name of its encoding using the `name` property.


What is Encoding.name in Ruby?

The `name` method in Ruby returns the string representation of an encoding's name for a given string.