Re: how to convert a string to a symbol?

[sunway]

I don't  want to take "(> 2 1)" as a symbol name, instead I want  "(>
2 1)" be evaled to 't'

On Sep 14, 2:10 pm, "Drew Adams" <drew.ad...@oracle.com> wrote:
> > > (setq str "(> 2 1)")
> > > I want something like: (eval (string-to-symbol str))
>
> > (intern str)
>
> And if you really want the value of the symbol (per your use of `eval' above):
>
> (symbol-value (intern str))
>
> But you might want to give it a value first ;-) -
>
> (set (intern "(> 2 1)") 42)
>
> (symbol-value '\(>\ 2\ 1\)) ; The answer is 42.
>
> However, as always with questions of this type, one wonders what you are
> _really_ trying to do (not to mention why)...