From: Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Huchler <stefan.huchler@mail.de>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: how to force org-mode to interpret number as string
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 10:14:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lhwnug5t.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87ha7c9xdn.fsf@mars.lan
Stefan Huchler <stefan.huchler@mail.de> writes:
> Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Hi Stefan,
>>
>> Stefan Huchler <stefan.huchler@mail.de> writes:
>>
>>> The Problem is that that org-mode seems to auto-format the salary column
>>> as a number.
>>
>> That a problem here, but I guess this is handy in many circumstances.
>>
>> Why don't use just turn the number into a string in your code?
>
> if I could do that, without loosing the numbers behind the point I would
> be ok with that, but I dont want a fixed system for 1 table, but for a
> random table.
>
I think that for this to work you may have to abandon using "." as your
numerical thousands separator. Or customize string-to-number and
org-babel-number-p to fit your number syntax.
Best,
--
Eric Schulte
https://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte
PGP: 0x614CA05D
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-06 22:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-05 3:45 how to force org-mode to interpret number as string Stefan Huchler
2014-03-05 15:09 ` Bastien
2014-03-05 21:06 ` Stefan Huchler
2014-03-06 17:14 ` Eric Schulte [this message]
2014-03-07 4:12 ` Stefan Huchler
2014-03-07 5:34 ` Eric Schulte
2014-03-07 14:10 ` Stefan Huchler
2014-03-13 14:37 ` Bastien
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