From: Thomas A. Russ
Subject: Re: Read-from-string
Date: 
Message-ID: <ymieizhbkom.fsf@blackcat.isi.edu>
Francogrex <······@grex.org> writes:

> When I do this:
> (list (read-from-string "lala tata bobo"))
> the output is: (LALA)
> 
> but I want the output to be: (lala tata bobo), a list of symbols. How
> can this be done. Thanks.

How about the simplest solution:

(read-from-string (concatenate 'string "(" "lala tata bobo" ")"))


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Thomas A. Russ,  USC/Information Sciences Institute