Strings to Lists ???

[Ben Larner]

How do you convert a string to a list for evaluation or quoting ?

"(defun foo (x) (+ x x))" -> (defun foo (x) (+ x x))

OR

"(a b c)" -> '(a b c)

I am working in Allegro CL for Windows. Any help would be
greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Ben
(lar...@netcom.com)

[Erik Naggum]

[Ben Larner]

| How do you convert a string to a list for evaluation or quoting?

`read' is the fundamental function for this. see `read-from-string'.

#\Erik
--
main () { printf ("%d\n", sin ("foo")); }

[Dieter Menszner]

ben...@sybase.com wrote about
"Strings to Lists ???":

(setq x (read-from-string "(a b c)"))
.

Dieter