destring

From de- +‎ string.

destring (third-person singular simple present destrings, present participle destringing, simple past and past participle destringed)

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

   Synonym: destringify

   Antonym: stringify

   I require some help with destringing my variables.

• stringed, grindset, Ringsted, grindest