I am trying to convert a public key saved as a string to an anchor_lang PubKey object in rust. What is the procedure to convert a string to a PubKey object?
If your public key can be static
pub const YOUR_PUBKEY: Pubkey = solana_program::pubkey!("base58_pubkey")
Otherwise
let your_pubkey = Pubkey::from_str("base58_pubkey").unwrap();
Here is an exact example (the string will vary with what you have) that converts a base58 string to Solana Pubkey:
let pk_key = Pubkey::from_str("SDMHqNqN82QSjEaEuqybmpXsjtX98YuTsX6YCdT99to").unwrap();