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From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Subject: Re: How to characterp?
Date: 1999/11/05
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* "Divya" <ravi2@frontiernet.net>
| I need to know if the car of this list is a character.  How can I check
| this?

  with CHARACTERP or (TYPEP <whatever> 'CHARACTER).

| But this check for "characterp" gives me false.

  then you don't have a character.  how hard can this be to understand?

  why don't you ask your real question, which ought to be very close to
  "what are characters in Common Lisp?"
  
#:Erik