How to use SYMBOL-NAME?

[Cad Bilbao]

Hi fellows.

Due to my program flow, I get two Strings:

String1: "Name"
String2: Name

And when trying to compare them both:
(if (string= String1 String2)...
it's always NIL (of course).

I've been told that String2 is a SYMBOL, not a STRING, but if I test:
(if (string= String1 (symbol-name String2))...

I get this error:
Takes a symbol Name

Any suggestion????

[Marco Antoniotti]

c...@bilbao.com (Cad Bilbao) writes:

> Hi fellows.
>
> Due to my program flow, I get two Strings:
>
> String1: "Name"
> String2: Name

That is not what I see. `"Name"' is a string, `Name' may be a symbol.

> And when trying to compare them both:
> (if (string= String1 String2)...
> it's always NIL (of course).
>
> I've been told that String2 is a SYMBOL, not a STRING, but if I test:
> (if (string= String1 (symbol-name String2))...
>
> I get this error:
> Takes a symbol Name

What Lisp are you using?

> Any suggestion????

A complete piece of code (as well as the answer to the previous
question) will help.

As an aside, you are probably better off to use STRING-EQUAL, instead
of STRING= in this case.

Cheers

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[Wade Humeniuk]

"Cad Bilbao" <c...@bilbao.com> wrote in message
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When you are doing this can you include a copy of your listener/interpreter
session. Then we can see what you are really doing instead of your
interpretation. This would really help.

Which Lisp are you using?

Wade

[Kenny Tilton]

Before the line which does the string=, print out as much as you can
given your Lisp environment about String2.

In CL i would add:

(print string2)
(print (type-of string2))

It might just be a simple bug, in which it turns out String2 is indeed a
string instead of the symbol you expect.

kenny
clinisys