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* eval-string
@ 2007-03-05  9:02 cefstat
  2007-03-05  9:45 ` eval-string Juanma Barranquero
       [not found] ` <mailman.447.1173087961.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
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From: cefstat @ 2007-03-05  9:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

Is there a way to do something like

(eval-string "(+ 2 3)")

in my elisp code? Obviously, I want this expression to return 5.

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* Re: eval-string
  2007-03-05  9:02 eval-string cefstat
@ 2007-03-05  9:45 ` Juanma Barranquero
       [not found] ` <mailman.447.1173087961.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
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From: Juanma Barranquero @ 2007-03-05  9:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cefstat@gmail.com; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs

On 5 Mar 2007 01:02:35 -0800, cefstat@gmail.com <cefstat@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to do something like
>
> (eval-string "(+ 2 3)")
>
> in my elisp code? Obviously, I want this expression to return 5.

(eval (read "(+ 2 3)"))  =>  5

             Juanma

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* Re: eval-string
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@ 2007-03-05 10:29   ` cefstat
  2007-03-05 10:58     ` eval-string cefstat
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: cefstat @ 2007-03-05 10:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

On Mar 5, 10:45 am, "Juanma Barranquero" <lek...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> (eval (read "(+ 2 3)"))  =>  5
>
>              Juanma

Thank you so much! I spent a lot of time with the Emacs Lisp Reference
manual and the builtin documentation yesterday but I completeley
missed "read".

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* Re: eval-string
  2007-03-05 10:29   ` eval-string cefstat
@ 2007-03-05 10:58     ` cefstat
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: cefstat @ 2007-03-05 10:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

On Mar 5, 11:29 am, cefs...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Thank you so much! I spent a lot of time with the Emacs Lisp Reference
> manual and the builtin documentation yesterday but I completeley
> missed "read".

And this

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/elisp-manual/html_node/Read-and-Print.html#Read-and-Print

proves that I should read tables of contents more carefully.

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