You can also convert a VirtualString directly to an Atom via
VirtualString.toAtom.

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Lyle Kopnicky <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yes, that's correct. Strings are represented as lists of characters, and
> characters are just small integers. It's unfortunate that strings don't
> Browse more readably. You can call StringToAtom on it to see something more
> readable.
>
> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Khadija EL MAHRSI <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I've been looking at the documentation and trying small examples to do the
>> following but to no avail.
>> I have a virtual string which contains a ( as one of its characters and I
>> would like to extract the part which comes before the (.
>> I've tried to transform the virtual string into a string and use
>> String.token but it's not working.
>> The result I get when I browse the string is something like [104 105 40
>> 104 97] which, I suspect, is not correct. Maybe I'm doing something wrong?
>> Can someone tell me how to achive this?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
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