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From: Eric Schulte <eric.schulte@gmx.com>
Subject: Re: preserve trailing zeros in table output from shell script
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 08:08:43 -0600
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"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,


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Content-Type: text/x-org
Content-Disposition: inline; filename=results-org.org


#+begin_src sh :results output org :exports results
  cat <<EOF
  | 1.0000 | 22.000 |
  | 333.00 | 4444.0 |
  EOF
#+end_src

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Best,

-- 
Eric Schulte
http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte

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