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How to convert an exception stack trace to a string in Java?

Hello everyone! I'm a beginner Java developer and encountered a problem with error logging. I need to save the full stack trace of an exception as a string to write it to a log file or send it to a monitoring system. The problem is that the standard method `e.printStackTrace()` outputs information to the console (System.err), but I need to get it as a string. I tried using `e.getMessage()`, but it only returns a brief error description (e.g., "Division by zero"), while I need the full trace with class names, method names, and line numbers. Here's an example of my code: ```java try { int result = 10 / 0; } catch (ArithmeticException e) { // Here I need to get the stack trace as a string String stackTrace = ???; // What to write? logToFile(stackTra