From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joost Diepenmaat Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how to convert a string to a symbol? Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 11:25:37 +0200 Organization: Zeekat Softwareonwikkeling Message-ID: <87prn76pv2.fsf@zeekat.nl> References: <003701c9162e$58cfcd50$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <08e88ade-63f9-416c-8644-caf95ff2a863@z11g2000prl.googlegroups.com> <87myibcfsz.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1221385525 2918 80.91.229.12 (14 Sep 2008 09:45:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 09:45:25 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 14 11:46:20 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 1Keo9o-00059n-Fs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Sep 2008 11:44:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53457 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Keo8n-0005WH-Qv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Sep 2008 05:43:37 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!feeder.news-service.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed3.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!transit3.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABgAAAAwBAMAAAD5pqeQAAAAAXNSR0IArs4c6QAAABhQTFRF URgKoyIAmTMXqF5KuYl7y6ui4NDM+/r4zJNdmwAAAAFiS0dEAIgFHUgAAAAJcEhZcwAACxMAAAsT AQCanBgAAAAHdElNRQfXDBIUAgGiEa2aAAABYUlEQVQoz02SvXaDMAyF3aHdZegD2PxkJhQ8J4R6 juGUuZDUe43R61eGJA0D8B1dXV0LGCJaDDePyOjZBtT9MgSYbIu+UpNl2A+/ukPXfNUku2ROdWhM 99myqzWX3Czp8dhY1n+MfWau+X4fZGNZpecuSwpFMHOZnpskFppgEaksGs5lFoYeYilOEMkjzcGC CzjxJJoowZIAQMPhfdYEecGhBFCOwO9GKkFkXZDtfIAax2C9wwKAWzwFyPGwQrXCIkimbzAHeFtl Ts0vJHvFkRI01ssVwpyMAoHkGmfFqL+TEmSNXjHMXeiHZAjZqjOsVxxSV8UG3Fi2ZGID2Fs2t7d3 6mLTdIdUM+PuECvW/T6gfobnSqTY+DDgmrnmATSnfMiQrTvcDOikyT1OWHxZPIF8As8P/waOjzdn IGt+vRVgYD7CrakFTSfFbwAB0Y+ghWj0IjP0Scz6I2E3zIlFb/8AfR6DwKVgwNYAAAAASUVORK5C YII= Cancel-Lock: sha1:6d7QRloit6bRbIyWEbNU4pFI1B0= Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.126.3.69 Original-X-Trace: 1221384367 news.xs4all.nl 196 [::ffff:80.126.3.69]:43919 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:162221 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:57564 Archived-At: sunway 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. -- Joost Diepenmaat | blog: http://joost.zeekat.nl/ | work: http://zeekat.nl/