Re: convert strings to symbol

[Nicholas Sandow]

On 16/06/2008, at 11:03 PM, alruccaba@justmail.de wrote:

> 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.

Have you looked at (intern "foo") or (make-symbol "foo") ?  Do they  
do what you want?

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