Re: [Q]How to evaluate a string as lisp code?

Subject: Re: [Q]How to evaluate a string as lisp code?
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Date: 2000/03/29
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3163345278914696@naggum.no>

* "David J. Cooper" <dcooper@genworks.com>
| Let's say your string is in the variable called string.
| 
| (eval (read-from-string string))
| 
| This will evaluate exactly one expression from the string.  You'll have
| to do something more (probably with subseq or something) to read and
| evaluate multiple expressions from a string.

  note that read-from-string returns two values, the secondary of which is
  the position from which you could continue to read from the string.

#:Erik