Re: org-babel: feature-request: allow table-cells to be passed as strings

From: "Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
To: Marc-Oliver Ihm <ihm@online.de>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: org-babel: feature-request: allow table-cells to be passed as strings
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2010 07:30:09 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8739sm9jby.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <i8ailu$usa$1@dough.gmane.org> (Marc-Oliver Ihm's message of "Sun, 03 Oct 2010 20:39:54 +0200")

Hi,

Could you send an example of the contents of such a cell, and what it is
converted to?  Maybe it will be possible to improve the parsing of
numerals in Babel s.t. we don't lose precision in these cases.

Thanks -- Eric

Marc-Oliver Ihm <ihm@online.de> writes:

> Hello !
>
> Currently org-babel, when passing a table as input to a
> source-code-block, behaves like this:
> If the cell looks like a number, it will be converted to an integer or a
> float. Otherwise the cell-content is passed unconverted as a string.
>
> Now, dealing with very large numbers (which I want to process with
> calc), I found this behavior annoying, because babel converts my large
> numbers to float, loosing precision in the process.
>
> Now my request would be, to have a switch (maybe as a header argument)
> which would tell babel to pass all cells as unconverted strings.
>
> I have checked the documentation and the sources and have not been able
> to find such a switch.
>
>
> with kind regards, Marc-Oliver Ihm
>
>
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