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Re: Emacs Lisp - Reading a sequence of bytes as one integer
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Teemu Likonen |
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Re: Emacs Lisp - Reading a sequence of bytes as one integer |
Date: |
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:15:49 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.94 (gnu/linux) |
* 2010-03-13 11:56 (-0500), Jeff Clough wrote:
> I can grab them as a buffer-substring obviously, but I'm at a loss for
> how to make that into the integer I need, nor can I find anything
> obvious that would be easier.
You can use the Lisp reader:
(read "123") => 123
The argument for READ can also be a buffer or a marker, for example. See
its documentation for more info.