From: [Invalid-From-Line]
Subject: Converting string to integer
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Message-ID: <53vvtn$hv0@www.univie.ac.at>

How do you convert a string with integer contents, e.g. "123" to 
integer or float??

Best Regards,

Michael Alexander
Doctoral Student at the University of Vienna

From: Carl L. Gay
Subject: Re: Converting string to integer
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Message-ID: <CGAY.96Oct15095944@ix.cs.uoregon.edu>

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   Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
   Date: 15 Oct 1996 12:26:31 GMT

   How do you convert a string with integer contents, e.g. "123" to 
   integer or float??

Here are some examples that you can followup on the net at
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/cltl2.html.

(parse-integer "123 456") => 123 3

(parse-integer "123 456" :start 3) => 456 7

(read-from-string "123 456") => 123 4

(read-from-string "1.23") => 1.23 4