From: Ara.T.Howard@...
Date: 2005-04-27T23:14:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Opposite of id2name

On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Adelle Hartley wrote:

>> "string".to_sym
>
> Thankyou.  I had been searching the documentation for over an hour, but not
> in the right places.
>
> Adelle.

   string.intern

cheers.

-a
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