In that case you don't need to convert to a symbol... (set "abc") should be fine...
Using set intersection, something like this is probably what you're looking for... (use 'clojure.set) (if (empty? (intersection (set "abc") (set "cde"))) false true)) I'm sure there's other (better) ways though On 19/07/2011, at 2:48 PM, Tuba Lambanog wrote: > Hi, > I'm clear on what I want ;) (something new to me), but I'm not clear on how > to get there. I'd like to compare str1 and str2, if at least one of the > letters in str1 is in str2. I'm thinking that if I can convert str1 and str2 > to sets, then I can use the set intersection operation. It probably doesn't > matter here if the sets contain characters or symbols? > Tuba > > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Benjamin Esham <bdes...@gmail.com> wrote: > Tuba Lambanog wrote: > > > Tuba Lambanog wrote: > > > > > Hello, My apologies for this newbie question. I couldn't find a way to > > > convert a string to a set, thus: > > > > > > "abc" => #{a b c} > > > > (set "abc") gives me #{\a \b \c}. I'm expecting instead: #{a b c} > > Hi Tuba, > > Are you quite sure that #{\a \b \c} is not what you want? In Clojure's > notation, a backslashed character [more or less] refers to a > single-character string--something akin to the char type from C. Hence \a is > the character a. On the other hand #{a b c} is a set containing three > Clojure symbols, which is probably not what you want. > > (If you want to be using a, b, and c as some kind of identifiers, take a > look at keywords.) > > -- > Benjamin D. Esham | bdes...@gmail.com | www.bdesham.info > How to Ask Questions the Smart Way, by Eric S. Raymond: > http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your > first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your > first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en