Converting Between Symbols and Strings

January 30, 2024

Sometimes you might need to convert a symbol to string in Emacs Lisp. You start looking for functions like symbol-to-string and string-to-symbol but, they do not exist.

With Emacs Lisp, you can do it like this.

(symbol-name 'some-symbol)
; ==> "some-symbol"
(intern "some-symbol")
; ==> some-symbol

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