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From: Greg Minshall <minshall@acm.org>
Subject: Re: a minor patch to awk invocation
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though, in the spirit of "no good deed goes unpunished":
----
#+name: foo
| a | b | c |

#+begin_src awk :var a=foo
BEGIN{ print a; }
#+end_src
----
gives an error (and, ':var a="this is a test"' doesn't behave as one
might expect).  i haven't looked at ob-*.el enough to know the patterns
used to wrap up various forms of variables into different languages.