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From: Marc-Oliver Ihm <ihm@online.de>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: org-babel: feature-request: allow table-cells to be passed as strings
Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2010 20:39:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <i8ailu$usa$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)

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

next             reply	other threads:[~2010-10-04  6:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-03 18:39 Marc-Oliver Ihm [this message]
2010-10-04 13:30 ` org-babel: feature-request: allow table-cells to be passed as strings Eric Schulte
2010-10-04 19:05   ` Marc-Oliver Ihm
2010-11-03 20:12     ` Eric Schulte
2010-11-04  7:23       ` Antwort: " marc-oliver.ihm

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