destring

Verb

 * 1)  to remove hard fibers or strings from something soft
 * 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.
 * 1)  to convert a variable that is of a string type to some other, usually numeric data type
 * I require some help with destringing my variables.