How to convert a clojure keyword into a string?

Question

In my application I need to convert clojure keyword eg. :var_name into a string "var_name". Any ideas how that could be done?

Answer 1

user=> (doc name) ------------------------- clojure.core/name ([x])   Returns the name String of a string, symbol or keyword. nil user=> (name :var_name) "var_name" 

Answer 2

Actually, it's just as easy to get the namespace portion of a keyword:

(name :foo/bar)  => "bar" (namespace :foo/bar) => "foo" 

Note that namespaces with multiple segments are separated with a '.', not a '/'

(namespace :foo/bar/baz) => throws exception: Invalid token: :foo/bar/baz (namespace :foo.bar/baz) => "foo.bar" 

And this also works with namespace qualified keywords:

;; assuming in the namespace foo.bar (namespace ::baz) => "foo.bar"   (name ::baz) => "baz"