Use (sym-cat (lowcase ?antwort)). Sym-cat turns things into symbols.
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I think Ludwig Pfefferkorn wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Can anybody help me with the followig problem?
>
> I use a function to read the answer of the user:
>
>
>
> (deffunction frage-stellen (?text ?erlaubte-werte)
> (printout t ?text)
> (bind ?antwort(read))
> (if (lexemep ?antwort) then (bind ?antwort (lowcase ?antwort)))
> (while (not (member$ ?antwort ?erlaubte-werte))
> (printout t ?text)
> (bind ?antwort(read))
> (if (lexemep ?antwort) then (bind ?antwort (lowcase ?antwort))))
> ?antwort)
>
> My problem is that (lowcase ?antwort) returns a string and not a symbol =
> though ?antwort is a symbol, so member$ doesn't work. I couldn't find a =
> function for making explicit type-conversion, so I don't know how I can =
> solve this problem.
> Thank you for any help.
>
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