# Symbol(String($symbol)) in quotes

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/symbol-string-symbol-in-quotes/91855>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [December 19, 2022, 1:33pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/symbol-string-symbol-in-quotes/91855 "2022-12-19T13:33:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Impressium](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/impressium/32/19575_2.png) [@Impressium](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Impressium)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 1:33pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/symbol-string-symbol-in-quotes/91855/1 "2022-12-19T13:33:42Z")

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Hi all 🙂

I need the following:

```julia
quote 
    :symbol
end

```

is there a better way for doing this:

```julia
julia> symbol = :symbol
:symbol

julia> quote
           Symbol(String($symbol))
       end
quote
    Symbol(String($symbol))
end

```

So what I need is basically a symbol in a quote but the value of the symbol comes from outside

Thanks

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**Author:** ![fredrikekre](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/fredrikekre/32/1688_2.png) [@fredrikekre](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fredrikekre)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 1:36pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/symbol-string-symbol-in-quotes/91855/2 "2022-12-19T13:36:15Z")

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You can use [`QuoteNode`](https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/metaprogramming/#man-quote-node):

```julia
julia> symbol = :symbol;

julia> quote
           $(QuoteNode(symbol))
       end
quote
    #= REPL[2]:2 =#
    :symbol
end

```