Re: how to convert a string to a symbol?

[Joost Diepenmaat <joost@zeekat.nl>]

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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