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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'sunway'" <sunwayforever@gmail.com>, <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: how to convert a string to a symbol?
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 22:54:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <003701c9162e$58cfcd50$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cd62c651-66cc-48a7-8165-5c858386cf33@r15g2000prd.googlegroups.com>

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

(intern str)





  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-14  5:54 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 [this message]
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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