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From: Tom McDougal <mcdougal@cs.uchicago.edu>
Subject: Re: string to symbol, how?
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In article <3ocrgq$7in@waage.rz.uni-ulm.de> Manfred Stede, 
stede@faw.uni-ulm.de writes:
>I know it has been discussed here a while ago, but I thought
>I'd never need it and didn't pay attention :-(  Now I do need
>it: can someone tell me how to convert a string to a symbol?

This is almost an FAQ.

(let ((the-string "hello"))
  (with-input-from-string (string-input-stream  the-string)
    (read string-input-stream)))

-->  HELLO

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