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From: Michael Welle <mwe012008@gmx.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is it possible to pass variable to variables of src block?
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2017 10:31:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877eu0gq3p.fsf@luisa.c0t0d0s0.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANO68EM3NgG-4dBifqhjvaJrzungsfocsr6EtaRCYtJ7MGVuQw@mail.gmail.com> (Xi Shen's message of "Tue, 05 Dec 2017 05:19:28 +0000")

Hello,

Xi Shen <davidshen84@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> http://orgmode.org/manual/var.html
>
> This wiki explains how to use variable inside a src block. But I wonder if
> it is possible to specify variable to the variables in the src definition.
>
> E.g. for the sql src block, I want to execute a script on different server.
> I want to define a variable for the ":dbhost" variable.
did you think about something like this?


(setq hmw/dbhost "db1")

#+BEGIN_SRC sql :dbhost (symbol-value 'hmw/dbhost) :dbuser weather :database environment :engine postgresql
select time, temperature from weather limit 20;
#+END_SRC

Regards
hmw

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2017-12-06  9:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-05  5:19 Is it possible to pass variable to variables of src block? Xi Shen
2017-12-06  9:31 ` Michael Welle [this message]
2017-12-12  6:30   ` Xi Shen
2017-12-12  7:17     ` Ihor Radchenko
2017-12-13  9:57     ` Michael Welle

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