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From: Maurizio Vitale <maurizio.vitale@polymath-solutions.com>
Subject: Re: [babel] passing strings in
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>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com> writes:

    Eric> Hi Maurizio, The ip addresses in your table are being
    Eric> interpreted as source/reference names which org-babel is
    Eric> trying to resolve.  In order to differentiate between strings
    Eric> and reference names, we either must surround all strings in
    Eric> double quotes (as below) or we must end all references with
    Eric> "()" and disallow any strings which end in "()".  Currently we
    Eric> are taking the former approach, which means your table will
    Eric> require the following to work...

That was a quick replay! Thanks.

If I understand you, the problem is not with org-babel, but with
org-mode itself expanding column references. In this case, wouldn't it
be possible to consider a general "quoting" mechanism preventing that
expansion? obviously "'" cannot be used, but maybe $$2 could be made to
mean "threat the value literally".

I'd be ok with the quotes in the source, but they look terrible in
exported documents.

Anyhow, I can live with the workaround you suggested.
Thanks again,

       Maurizio