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From: "Sébastien Vauban" <wxhgmqzgwmuf-geNee64TY+gS+FvcfC7Uqw@public.gmane.org>
To: emacs-orgmode-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [babel] Sh problem when echo'ing input data with ' inside
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 20:29:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <80ei8b5nwq.fsf@missioncriticalit.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87tyh7jy6b.fsf@gmail.com

Hi Eric,

"Eric Schulte" wrote:
>> I tried to work on a CSV2Ledger, accepting the particular (European) CSV
>> format of my bank:
>>
>> * "Europeanize" the CSV file
>>
>> Here, we have to make several manipulations on the input file [...]. My
>> goal is to make that as a suite of bash commands (=echo | cmd 1 | cmd 2=),
>> tangled in a script file.
>>
>> However, I can't do any work on the input file, the very basic echo command
>> already giving an error:
>>
>> #+begin_src stderr
>> sh: line 3: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
>> sh: line 10: syntax error: unexpected end of file
>> #+end_src
>>
>> In this sample, this is due to the apostrophe in the header line ("Montant de
>> l'opération").
>
> I can't reproduce this problem, on my system, I get the following
> correct behavior
>
> #+results: excel-from-bank
> #+begin_example
> Num.ro du compte :;979-9500975-24;Compte Maxi
> Date valeur;R.f.rence de l'op.ration;Description;Montant de l'op.ration;Devise;Date d'op.ration;Compte de contrepartie;Nom de la contrepartie :;Communication 1 :;Communication 2 :
> 04-06-2009;A9F04NT01WK300TG;Virem. internet;420,00;EUR;04-06-2009;799-5900947-23;PAYEE ONE; ; 
> 24-02-2009;A9B24NT012K4018Z;Virem. internet;-54,93;EUR;24-02-2009;799-9974005-30;ME;Eigen rekening; 
> 18-05-2008;A8E19NT000S604QI;Virem. internet;-1.000,00;EUR;19-05-2008;799-8068445-18;PAYEE TWO; ; 
> #+end_example
>
> #+begin_src sh :var data=excel-from-bank :results output
> echo "$data"
> #+end_src
>
> #+results:
> : Num.ro du compte :;979-9500975-24;Compte Maxi
> : Date valeur;R.f.rence de l'op.ration;Description;Montant de l'op.ration;Devise;Date d'op.ration;Compte de contrepartie;Nom de la contrepartie :;Communication 1 :;Communication 2 :
> : 04-06-2009;A9F04NT01WK300TG;Virem. internet;420,00;EUR;04-06-2009;799-5900947-23;PAYEE ONE; ; 
> : 24-02-2009;A9B24NT012K4018Z;Virem. internet;-54,93;EUR;24-02-2009;799-9974005-30;ME;Eigen rekening; 
> : 18-05-2008;A8E19NT000S604QI;Virem. internet;-1.000,00;EUR;19-05-2008;799-8068445-18;PAYEE TWO; ;
>
> and the sh code block expands to the following (with C-c C-v v) which is
> not affected by commas...

I've no trouble with commas, except that it's not an American formatting for
amounts. Though, I does well have problems, as showed, with the apostrophe...

Previewing does work for me as well:

> #+begin_src sh
>   data=$(cat <<BABEL_STRING
>   Num.ro du compte :;979-9500975-24;Compte Maxi
>   Date valeur;R.f.rence de l'op.ration;Description;Montant de l'op.ration;Devise;Date d'op.ration;Compte de contrepartie;Nom de la contrepartie :;Communication 1 :;Communication 2 :
>   04-06-2009;A9F04NT01WK300TG;Virem. internet;420,00;EUR;04-06-2009;799-5900947-23;PAYEE ONE; ; 
>   24-02-2009;A9B24NT012K4018Z;Virem. internet;-54,93;EUR;24-02-2009;799-9974005-30;ME;Eigen rekening; 
>   18-05-2008;A8E19NT000S604QI;Virem. internet;-1.000,00;EUR;19-05-2008;799-8068445-18;PAYEE TWO; ;
>   BABEL_STRING
>   )
>   echo "$data"
> #+end_src

Evaluation does not.

> Are you on a windows machine?  I'm not sure what else could be different
> about the shell environment on our machines.

Yes, it is on Windows ;-)  Though, with Cygwin bash support... which should
behave as on any Linux...

> note: some of the characters in your email weren't printable when I
> tried to send this with gnus, so they've been replaced with "."s

These are French accentuated letters.

>> Any idea on how to:
>> - circumvent such problem?
>> - or, eventually, do this better?

No idea on any workaround, then?  ;-(

Best regards,
  Seb

-- 
Sébastien Vauban


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  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-17 19:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-17 12:42 [babel] Sh problem when echo'ing input data with ' inside Sébastien Vauban
2011-01-17 16:24 ` Eric Schulte
2011-01-17 19:29   ` Sébastien Vauban [this message]
2011-01-17 19:54     ` Eric Schulte
2011-01-17 22:49       ` Sébastien Vauban
2011-01-17 20:00 ` Achim Gratz
2011-01-17 20:29   ` Eric Schulte
2011-01-17 21:36   ` Achim Gratz
2011-01-17 22:39     ` Sébastien Vauban
2011-01-17 22:51       ` Achim Gratz
2011-01-18  7:02         ` Sébastien Vauban
2011-01-18  9:22       ` Sébastien Vauban
2011-01-18 16:24         ` Eric Schulte
2011-01-18 17:31           ` Sébastien Vauban
2011-01-18 18:23         ` Achim Gratz
2011-01-20 19:17         ` Achim Gratz
2011-01-20 22:12           ` Sébastien Vauban

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