destring

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 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.

2. (computing, transitive) 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.

• grindest, stringed