From: Nicholas Sandow <njsand@internode.on.net>
To: alruccaba@justmail.de
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: convert strings to symbol
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:17:13 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1746AC69-4665-4031-A27C-D35EC91A9AE2@internode.on.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1K8ENJ-0000gA-Ij@www7.emo.freenet-rz.de>
On 16/06/2008, at 11:03 PM, alruccaba@justmail.de wrote:
> Does someone have an idea how to convert a string object to a symbol?
> One purpose would be some kind of variable substitution :
>
> (setq y "z")
> (setq x "y")
> (print ..? x ....) -> "z"
>
> Thanks in advance.
Have you looked at (intern "foo") or (make-symbol "foo") ? Do they
do what you want?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-16 13:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-16 13:03 convert strings to symbol alruccaba
2008-06-16 13:17 ` Nicholas Sandow [this message]
2008-06-16 13:27 ` David Hansen
2008-06-16 14:16 ` Andreas Röhler
[not found] ` <mailman.13394.1213625735.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-06-16 14:48 ` David Kastrup
2008-06-16 16:48 ` Andreas Röhler
[not found] ` <mailman.13405.1213634862.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-06-16 17:12 ` David Kastrup
2008-06-20 14:25 ` Andreas Röhler
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