Johan:

To use expanded noweb references you can use text source blocks

#+NAME: lscode
#+BEGIN_SRC *text*
ls -alh
#+END_SRC


#+NAME: example
#+BEGIN_SRC sh :noweb yes
echo <<lscode>>
#+END_SRC

#+RESULTS: example
: ls -alh


#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :var code=example
(message code)
#+END_SRC

#+RESULTS:
: ls -alh


Martín

On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 10:36 AM Martin Alsinet <martin@alsinet.com.ar>
wrote:

> Johan:
>
> You can try the following:
>
> #+NAME: lscode
> #+BEGIN_ASCII
> ls -alh
> #+END_ASCII
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :var code=lscode
> (message code)
> #+END_SRC
>
> #+RESULTS:
> : ls -alh
>
> I haven't tried the noweb references, but it does return the code block in
> the variable.
>
>
> Martín
>
> On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 9:22 AM Johan W. Klüwer <johan.w.kluwer@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to assign the uninterpreted content of an executable
>> source block to a variable? Preferably, using a :var header argument? That
>> is, return the text in the block, not the result of evaluating it, and
>> preferably with noweb references expanded.
>>
>> "example" blocks return text the way I want, but they can't be evaluated,
>> and of course noweb is ruled out for them.
>>
>> The function org-babel-ref-resolve could to the job if there were a
>> switch to block evaluation.
>>
>>
>> Why this is interesting: I wish to use url-hexify-string on the text of a
>> named SPARQL query.
>>
>> Cheers, Johan
>>
>