From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: Exploding a string into a list of character atoms? Date: 1996/09/24 Message-ID: <3052550412441563@naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 185012377 sender: erik@arcana.naggum.no references: organization: Naggum Software; +47 2295 0313; http://www.naggum.no newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp [Joseph O'Rourke] | Is there a function to take a string like "string" and return the list | (S T R I N G)? (I am using GCL.) Thanks for any help! do you really want to use interned _symbols_ to represent each character? if you only want characters, take a look at `coerce', as in (coerce "string" 'list) => (#\s #\t #\r #\i #\n #\g) #\Erik -- Those who do not know Lisp are doomed to reimplement it.