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* how to convert a string to a symbol?
@ 2008-09-14  4:59 sunway
  2008-09-14  5:54 ` Drew Adams
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 13+ messages in thread
From: sunway @ 2008-09-14  4:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

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

is it possible in elisp?


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2008-09-14  4:59 how to convert a string to a symbol? sunway
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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
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2008-09-14 10:19     ` Richard G Riley
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2008-09-15  9:34         ` David Kastrup

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