Re: string > symbol?

[Doug_Merrill@rand.org (Douglas C. Merrill)]

In article <v01510101ab8fa60d3dfb@[198.112.73.133]>, slh@digitool.com
(Steve Hain) wrote:

> At 10:43 AM 3/17/95, Ken Tilton wrote:
> >We keep running into the need to make a string into a symbol, but things are
> >not going well.
> >
> >"intern" is not really working for us, but I gather that is the way to go.
> >here's the scoop.

You might try messing with read-from-string (it returns multiple values,
but you can ignore the extra args) -- you'll need to preface it with
something like string-left-trim, etc.

luck,

dcm

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