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$UNSTRING
: Convert string into characters‘$UNSTRING(string)’ removes quotes from the string, if they are present, and treats the result as a collection of characters. No tokenization is done, so macro expansion does not operate on those characters.
For a more detailed discussion and a comparison with $UNQUOTE
(see $UNQUOTE
: Remove quotes from string), see Strings and quotes.