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From: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
Subject: Re: Bug: named columns in tables not working if name contains "_"
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:35:30 +0200
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Hi Nick,

Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> writes:

> Try adding an underscore to the regexp on line 2179 of org-table.el -
> something like this (untested):
>
>           ...
> 	  (if (string-match "^[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_]*$" name)
> 	      (push (cons name (int-to-string cnt)) org-table-column-names))))
>
> The only characters permitted are alphanumerics. That can probably be
> easily relaxed.

Thanks for the suggested fix.

I've pushed a change to allow the underscore char in both field and
column names.

Best,

-- 
 Bastien