From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: table not returned Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:20:59 -0400 Message-ID: <17334.1332944459@alphaville> References: <87ty19ak2b.fsf@med.uni-goettingen.de> <87pqbx4wn7.fsf@gnu.org> <87zkb1c5jx.fsf@med.uni-goettingen.de> <16747.1332938738@alphaville> <87r4wcdfga.fsf@med.uni-goettingen.de> Reply-To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:49432) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SCtkM-0007vS-EP for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:21:16 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SCtkG-0004tj-1R for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:21:09 -0400 Received: from g1t0028.austin.hp.com ([15.216.28.35]:42005) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SCtkF-0004tR-Sp for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:21:03 -0400 In-Reply-To: Message from Andreas Leha of "Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:26:29 +0200." <87r4wcdfga.fsf@med.uni-goettingen.de> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Andreas Leha Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Andreas Leha wrote: > thanks for that analysis! I had tried replacing "(" with "[" without > success. Now I "know" why: > > (org-babel-string-read "[foo)") --> Error > > ,---- > | Debugger entered--Lisp error: (invalid-read-syntax ") or . in a vector") > | read("[foo)") > | org-babel-read("[foo)") > | org-babel-string-read("[foo)") > | eval((org-babel-string-read "[foo)") nil) > | eval-last-sexp-1(nil) > | eval-last-sexp(nil) > | call-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil nil) > `---- > BTW, two possible workarounds which "work" with org-babel-string-read: (org-babel-string-read "[foo]") --> [foo] (org-babel-string-read "'(bar)") --> (bar) do *not* work in the original context, so the org-babel-string-read problem is probably only part of the story. Nick