Reading repr() string to object?

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Hi all,

In R, the functions dput() and dget() let you output an object to a string representation, and read it back in. This is handy for quickly reproducing objects for e.g. reproducible tests or for help.

In Julia, I can get a string representation of an object with repr():

tmpmatrix = [3 1; 3 2; 5 3; 5 4; 7 5; 7 6]
tmpstr = repr(tmpmatrix)
tmpstr

…but, is there a way to read in tmpstr into a matrix object again?

Any help appreciated. Cheers!
Nick

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eval(Meta.parse(tmpstr))
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Genius! Thanks very much!
Cheers,
Nick