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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi there,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I have come across something that I need just a little bit of help with.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I managed to write some lisp code to read a flat file, line by line. I also</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">managed to put those lines of code into something like this:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">(</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">( "A,MSFT.N,D,12.4,12:43:00")</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">( "f,IBM.N,f,108.4,11:09:023")</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">)</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">All comma delineated text files. Now, I would like to convert this into</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">something that I can deal with from a lisp perspective - I would like</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">to get so that these values are symbols - so this is what I really</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">want:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">(</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">( A MSFT.N D 12.4 12:43:00 )</FONT>
<BR> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">( f IBM.N f 108.4 11:09:023 )</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">)</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I noticed that there is a function called INTERN which seems to convert</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">a regular string to a symbol, but, I don't really have a regular string, I </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">have a "mess" as shown above. Any idea on how I can go from a</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">messed up single long string, to a bunch of symbols, so I can finally</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">start dealing with the symbols in the line from a file a "lisp way"?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thanks, Alex.</FONT>
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