Creating a symbol from a string

[Yves Cloutier]

Hello,

Is it possible to create a symbol from a string.

For example "a_string".to_symbol  ?

I've looked through the String API but couldn't find any method. 

[Ary Borenszweig]

Hi!

No, it's not possible.

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[Yves Cloutier]

Ok thanks. Ill try to do it using a macro.

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[Ary Borenszweig]

My advise is to not use symbols, you can probably just use strings for your use case.

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[Yves Cloutier]

Thanks for your suggestion Ary

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