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From: Greg Minshall <minshall@umich.edu>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: quotation marks in table cell vs. org-babel-ref-resolve
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2021 20:28:51 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4033335.1638552531@apollo2.minshall.org> (raw)

hi.  i'm trying to use =org-babel-ref-resolve= to access the values of a
column in a table.  it all works fine for many cases.  however, if the
contents of an entry in the column starts with quotation marks, those
quotation marks disappear, and anything outside the quoted part of the
cell "disappears" (in the result).  see below.

would this be intentional?  a bug?

or, if there's a better way to retrieve the contents of a table column,
i'd love to hear.

cheers, Greg

ps -- it doesn't seem to matter that "35" can be considered an integer;
i.e., "a35" seems to behave the same.

----
#+name: foo
| this | is |  a | header                           |
|------+----+----+----------------------------------|
|   33 | 42 | 32 | "35"                             |
|   33 | 42 | 32 | "35" thirtyfive                  |
|   33 | 42 | 32 | 35 thirtyfive                    |
|   33 | 42 | 32 | thirtyfive "35"                  |
|   33 | 42 | 32 | thirtyfive "35" post-thirty-five |

#+begin_src elisp
  (org-babel-ref-resolve "foo")
#+end_src

#+RESULTS:
| this | is |  a | header                           |
|------+----+----+----------------------------------|
|   33 | 42 | 32 | 35                               |
|   33 | 42 | 32 | 35                               |
|   33 | 42 | 32 | 35 thirtyfive                    |
|   33 | 42 | 32 | thirtyfive "35"                  |
|   33 | 42 | 32 | thirtyfive "35" post-thirty-five |

next             reply	other threads:[~2021-12-03 17:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-03 17:28 Greg Minshall [this message]
2021-12-03 18:26 ` quotation marks in table cell vs. org-babel-ref-resolve Greg Minshall
2021-12-03 23:45   ` Tim Cross
2021-12-04  3:16     ` Greg Minshall
2021-12-04 21:34       ` Tim Cross
2021-12-06 18:02         ` Greg Minshall
2021-12-06  9:20           ` Greg Minshall
2022-10-23  7:09       ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-03-01  0:20     ` Greg Minshall

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