From: Oliver Bengtsson
Subject: reading files -- want numeric input to come in as numbers
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 1994 23:05:58 +0000
Message-ID: <94Jun29.190539edt.16162@orasis.vis.toronto.edu>

I'm reading an ASCII file of floating point numbers using read-line. 
The numbers once they've been read have "" marks around them, and I can't
seem to do math on them without getting an error. Please mail me a way that
I can convert these strings to FIXNUMS, either at the time they're read in 
(prefferably), or some time down the road.

Many thanks,

	Oliver