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From: mohammad@hpclmp.HP.COM (Mohammad Pourheidari)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: preserving newlines in strings
Message-ID: <640009@hpclmp.HP.COM>
Date: 7 Feb 90 23:28:00 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Calif. Language Lab
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Is there a way to preserve newlines in a string that is the argument to 
the function read-from-string?

For example given:

(read-from-string "(defun foo (x y)
                      (+ x y))")

should return:

(DEFUN FOO (X Y)
(+ X Y))



thanks, M.