From: Joost Diepenmaat <joost@zeekat.nl>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: how to convert a string to a symbol?
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 11:25:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87prn76pv2.fsf@zeekat.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ff3afca0-788c-4eba-a543-cbae0ba3b0a1@x16g2000prn.googlegroups.com
sunway <sunwayforever@gmail.com> writes:
> What you say is close to what I want, I do want to turn a string into
> a sexp,but the string could from the minibuffer or somewhere else.
> for example, I want to write a function , it takes a string as
> argument, the function could turn the string to a sexp, eval it, and
> return the result.
You want to take a look at (read-from-string) or possibly some of the
other read* functions.
also: please don't top post. it really makes your posts harder to read.
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Joost Diepenmaat | blog: http://joost.zeekat.nl/ | work: http://zeekat.nl/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-14 9:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-14 4:59 how to convert a string to a symbol? sunway
2008-09-14 5:54 ` Drew Adams
2008-09-14 6:10 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.19202.1221372658.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-09-14 7:10 ` sunway
2008-09-14 7:27 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2008-09-14 8:06 ` Tim X
2008-09-14 8:34 ` sunway
2008-09-14 9:25 ` Joost Diepenmaat [this message]
2008-09-14 13:47 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2008-09-14 7:25 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2008-09-14 10:19 ` Richard G Riley
2008-09-14 13:43 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2008-09-15 9:34 ` David Kastrup
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