From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: how to convert a string to a symbol? Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 23:10:58 -0700 Message-ID: <003901c91630$a7fcbe90$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> References: <003701c9162e$58cfcd50$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1221372715 9492 80.91.229.12 (14 Sep 2008 06:11:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 06:11:55 +0000 (UTC) To: "'sunway'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 14 08:12:51 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Kekqm-0000eT-2a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Sep 2008 08:12:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48592 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kekpk-0006om-1q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Sep 2008 02:11:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kekoz-0006Kb-50 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Sep 2008 02:10:57 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kekox-0006Iy-93 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Sep 2008 02:10:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52949 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kekow-0006Ie-5p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Sep 2008 02:10:54 -0400 Original-Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]:43536) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kekov-0006PD-93 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Sep 2008 02:10:53 -0400 Original-Received: from agmgw1.us.oracle.com (agmgw1.us.oracle.com [152.68.180.212]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id m8E6Ahcb030988; Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:10:44 -0600 Original-Received: from acsmt700.oracle.com (acsmt700.oracle.com [141.146.40.70]) by agmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.0/Switch-3.2.0) with ESMTP id m8E6Aesr014346; Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:10:42 -0600 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/24.23.165.218) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sat, 13 Sep 2008 23:10:40 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: AckWLLSINil/vnOIQhGbRxTeynQObQAAZPsAAABep3A= X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3350 In-Reply-To: <003701c9162e$58cfcd50$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:57556 Archived-At: > > (setq str "(> 2 1)") > > I want something like: (eval (string-to-symbol str)) > > (intern str) And if you really want the value of the symbol (per your use of `eval' above): (symbol-value (intern str)) But you might want to give it a value first ;-) - (set (intern "(> 2 1)") 42) (symbol-value '\(>\ 2\ 1\)) ; The answer is 42. However, as always with questions of this type, one wonders what you are _really_ trying to do (not to mention why)...