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From: sunway <sunwayforever@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: how to convert a string to a symbol?
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 21:59:19 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cd62c651-66cc-48a7-8165-5c858386cf33@r15g2000prd.googlegroups.com> (raw)

(setq str "(> 2 1)")
I want something like:
(eval (string-to-symbol str))

is it possible in elisp?


             reply	other threads:[~2008-09-14  4:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-14  4:59 sunway [this message]
2008-09-14  5:54 ` how to convert a string to a symbol? 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
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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