It's the other way around; I want to turn a string literal into an identifier.
The [program](https://hg.sr.ht/~sschwarzer/todoreport/browse/default/src/todoreport.nim) parses a [todo.txt](https://github.com/todotxt/todo.txt#todotxt-format-rules) file and displays the information grouped and sorted (grouping isn't implemented yet). The user can specify the sort criteria on the command line, for example, $ todoreport --sort-by=prio,crd todo.txt Run would print the tasks from the todo.txt file sorted by priority, then by creation date. So the user doesn't specify the field names for the `Task` object directly, but the user input is "translated" to the corresponding field name with a [hash table](https://hg.sr.ht/~sschwarzer/todoreport/browse/default/src/todoreport.nim#L15). What I'm looking for is something like Python's `getattr`. For example, `getattr(someObject, "fieldName")` would return the value of `someObject.fieldName`. Since Nim uses the term "field" instead of "attribute", a Nim version of this could be called `getField`.
