Johan:

You can try the following:

#+NAME: lscode
#+BEGIN_ASCII
ls -alh
#+END_ASCII

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :var code=lscode
(message code)
#+END_SRC

#+RESULTS:
: ls -alh

I haven't tried the noweb references, but it does return the code block in
the variable.


Martín

On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 9:22 AM Johan W. Klüwer <johan.w.kluwer@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Is there a way to assign the uninterpreted content of an executable source
> block to a variable? Preferably, using a :var header argument? That is,
> return the text in the block, not the result of evaluating it, and
> preferably with noweb references expanded.
>
> "example" blocks return text the way I want, but they can't be evaluated,
> and of course noweb is ruled out for them.
>
> The function org-babel-ref-resolve could to the job if there were a switch
> to block evaluation.
>
>
> Why this is interesting: I wish to use url-hexify-string on the text of a
> named SPARQL query.
>
> Cheers, Johan
>