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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!ames!think.com!barmar
  2. From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
  4. Subject: Re: converting from strings to ___
  5. Date: 22 Jul 1992 21:05:00 GMT
  6. Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
  7. Lines: 12
  8. Message-ID: <14kihsINNcqq@early-bird.think.com>
  9. References: <1992Jul22.194639.10131@cs.brown.edu>
  10. NNTP-Posting-Host: telecaster.think.com
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  12. In article <1992Jul22.194639.10131@cs.brown.edu> map@cs.brown.edu (Mike Perkowitz) writes:
  13. >what it really seems like i
  14. >need to be able to do is just "remove the quotes" from the string and turn it
  15. >into a symbol or something.
  16.  
  17. Sounds like you need to use PARSE-INTEGER, INTERN, or READ-FROM-STRING,
  18. depending on the context.
  19. -- 
  20. Barry Margolin
  21. System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
  22.  
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