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So you have called:
You have just created a temporary symbol named "string". You can try this to see for yourself:
If you want a string object out of "string", you will have to quote it in the minibuffer too:
I think you should have not downvoted /u/lispm below (or whomever it was); he has given a few very good questions to get you going on in exploring those things on your own.