How do you evaluate a string as a clojure expression?

Question

How would I get something similar to the following?:

(evaluate-text "(+ 1 2)")  ; resolves to 3

Answer 1

(load-string "(+ 1 2)")

Answer 2

user> (eval (read-string "(+ 1 2)"))
3

You probably shouldn't ever need to do this. Macros and fns make this kind of thing unnecessary 99% of the time. This is quite brittle, and can be unsafe if these strings are coming from user input, and so on.

Answer 3

How similar does it have to be? Clojure's eval works on lists, so:

(eval (list + 1 2)) #=> 3