"Joseph A. Cua" <jac89@cornell.edu> writes:

> I have a reporting shell script that generates a tab-delimited table.
> Using it within a shell code block, org parses this nicely into an org
> table. But org seems to drop any trailing zeros from numeric cells. My
> reporting script has already done the number formatting, so I want
> trailing zeros preserved (both within org and in html export). What's
> the best way?
>

If you want to return the numbers as strings *and* you want the results
to be captured as an Org-mode table, then you should use the ":results
org" output type so that you have complete control over the table.

For example,