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From: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@online.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: convert strings to symbol
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:16:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200806161616.21377.andreas.roehler@online.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1K8ENJ-0000gA-Ij@www7.emo.freenet-rz.de>

Am Montag, 16. Juni 2008 schrieb alruccaba@justmail.de:
> 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.
> 
> 
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make-symbol (?)

(setq a (make-symbol "eins"))
a => eins




  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-06-16 14:16 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
2008-06-16 13:27 ` David Hansen
2008-06-16 14:16 ` Andreas Röhler [this message]
     [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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