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From: moore%defmacro.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Tim Moore)
Subject: Re: string to symbol conversion
Date: 21 Jun 91 10:27:56 MDT
Message-ID: <1991Jun21.102756.29132@hellgate.utah.edu>
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In article <80761@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> lewocz@pegasus.cs.Buffalo.EDU (John S. Lewocz) writes:
>Is there any way to convert an arbitrary string like "bob" into the 
>symbol bob in Common Lisp?

(intern "bob") =>
|bob|
NIL

(intern (string-upcase "bob")) =>
BOB
NIL

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