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From: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How do I chain babel blocks with arguments?
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 12:24:38 +0200
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Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org> writes:

>> #+name:test2 
>> #+begin_src emacs-lisp :var z="bar"
>>   (let ((y (org-sbe test1 (x (intern z)))))
>>     y)
>> #+end_src
>
> Thank you for the suggestion, but it returns a symbol and not the
> string. In the more complex setting I'm playing with I need a string
> there.

w/o knowing what this thread is about (since I did not follow it) I
would say that all you need is

,----------------
| (symbol-name y)
`----------------

as last expression.

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten