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gnuist006@hotmail.com (gnuist006) writes:

> I want to write a function, say converting a binary to decimal in lisp.
> For arbitrary length binary, I want the input as a string, which is what
> we do in C. Then I want to get "car" of the string and go from there.
> This is like getchar or getc in C.
> Now this "car" does not apply to a string but to a list. On the other
> hand the arbitary length input applies to string. Does there exist
> string to list function? But even that also seems cheating. What is the
> most elegant way to write such a function so that it is also readible
> in use.
You are looking for aref:

(aref "abc" 1) => 98

C-h f aref RET for more info.

-- 
CYa,
  Mario