USER(1): (symbol-name '_np) "_NP"Note that the result is always uppercase.
Then you can use the usual sequence handling functions, such as subseq or find, to manipulate strings.
USER(3): (subseq "abcd" 2 4) "cd"
Once you have the string that corresponds to a symbol name, you
can use the function
USER(5): (read-from-string "aBc")
ABC
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