destring

Verb

destring (third-person singular simple present destrings, present participle destringing, simple past and past participle destringed)

1. (transitive) To remove hard fibers or strings from.
   • The two men found the three women destringing freshly picked bush beans for the evening meal.
   • I served as an extra pair of hands, occasionally peeling potatoes or destringing celery.
2. (transitive) To convert (a variable of string type) to some other, usually numeric data type.
   • I require some help with destringing my variables.

   Synonyms:

   destringify

   Antonyms:

   stringify