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- From: map@cs.brown.edu (Mike Perkowitz)
- Subject: converting from strings to ___
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.194639.10131@cs.brown.edu>
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- Organization: Brown Computer Science Dept.
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 19:46:39 GMT
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- i'm working on a system where i'm getting user input through Motif widgets
- (using CLM). in one part, the user can specify values for certain parameters
- through a text widget. the problem is that the value held by the text widget
- will always be a string. i need to be able to treat that string as a number or
- even as any arbitrary value (t/nil, for example). what it really seems like i
- need to be able to do is just "remove the quotes" from the string and turn it
- into a symbol or something. does anybody have any ideas? is this doable? to
- what extent? any assistance would be greatly appreciated...
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- thanks,
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- mike perkowitz
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