How to remove quotation marks

[Ulf Wiger]

1> List = "[{hello1}, {hello2}]".
"[{hello1}, {hello2}]"
2> {ok,Tokens,_} = erl_scan:string(List ++ ".").
{ok,[{'[',1},
     {'{',1},
     {atom,1,hello1},
     {'}',1},
     {',',1},
     {'{',1},
     {atom,1,hello2},
     {'}',1},
     {']',1},
     {dot,1}],
    1}
3> erl_parse:parse_term(Tokens).
{ok,[{hello1},{hello2}]}


/Uffe

On Mon, 27 May 2002, Faustin Ngokse wrote:

>Hi erlang friends,
>
>I don't know if some of you solved this problem before;
>I have an erlang term enclosed in quotation marks and I just
>want to remove the quotation marks.
>Does anyone know an elegant way how to do that?
>
>example:
>How to transform
>List = "[{hello1}, {hello2}]"
>into
>Term = [{hello1}, {hello2}]
>
>Thanks in advance
>/// Faustin
>
>

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