destring

verb2

1. •
   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. •
   To convert (a variable of string type) to some other, usually numeric data type.

   • I require some help with destringing my variables.