Re: Cannot expand macros through included org file

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

reza <reza@housseini.me> writes:

>    #+BEGIN_SRC bash :file log_{{{year}}}.csv
>      ./get_log_file --start={{{year}}}-01-01 --end={{{year}}}-12-31
>    #+END_SRC
>
>    #+BEGIN_SRC python
>      log = pd.read_csv("log_{{{year}}}.csv")
>    #END_SRC
> ...
> But that does not seem to work. It looks like the macro expansion does 
> not happen for included content. Is this a bug or correct behavior, what 
> would be the approach to not repeat the content for several reports?

Macro expansion only works inside Org proper markup.
Macros are only recognized withing non-verbatim contexts.
Src blocks are considered verbatim and macros are not expanded there.
Otherwise, Org would risk interfering with proper programming language
syntax.

What you can do instead is creating a named Org paragraph with macro,
like

#+name: year
{{{year}}}

and then refer to it via variable assignments.

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