number symbols from strings in scheme

yo'
stop talking about the jews for a moment and help me, thanks.

I'm toying with scheme evaluator and I'd like to know why the conversion from string to symbol, lets say (string->symbol "1"),
returns things as |1| and not '1 that eval or the language itself would recognize as a number.

>>2
Good read

>>4
Ok, I think I follow.
So if I want to parse numbers from strings there's no elegant way, just getting my hands dirty with splitting or with a external library?

Well, thanks.