From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
To: William Denton <wtd@pobox.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Preserving leading zeros
Date: Mon, 29 May 2023 08:04:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mt1ntvfd.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2305281024550.89343@shell3.miskatonic.org>
William Denton <wtd@pobox.com> writes:
> I'm thinking about moving a personal library catalogue system into Org. This
> would involve ISBNs, and when ISBNs had 10 digits some would have leading zeros.
> It turns out leading zeros are removed when something looks like a number.
>
> #+name:isbn
> | 0006145396 |
>
> #+begin_src shell :results output :var string=isbn
> echo $string
> #+end_src
>
> #+RESULTS:
> : 6145396
Try
#+name:isbn
| "0006145396" |
Currently, Org unconditionally converts everything that looks like a
number into numbers using `read'.
We could, in theory, allow passing ;L flags or similar when reading
table reference (see 3.5.2 Formula syntax for Calc). Feel free to write
a feature request if you think that it might be useful.
--
Ihor Radchenko // yantar92,
Org mode contributor,
Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>.
Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>,
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-05-29 8:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-28 14:46 Preserving leading zeros William Denton
2023-05-28 17:01 ` Berry, Charles
2023-05-28 17:50 ` William Denton
2023-05-28 18:40 ` tomas
2023-05-29 8:04 ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]
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