Re: evaluation of perl in babel

[dmg <dmg@uvic.ca>]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:54 AM, D M German <dmg@uvic.ca> wrote:
>
>  Achim> You may misunderstand some things, or I don't understand what you are
>  Achim> asking.  It is (at least currently) the responsibility of the Perl
>  Achim> program (or any other Babel language) to deliver the result in such a
>  Achim> way that it can be interpreted correctly by the result type chosen (in
>  Achim> other word, the program output must be valid Org syntax in the given
>  Achim> context).  You can't have the same program produce tables, vectors and
>  Achim> LaTeX output just by switching the results type.
>
> I understand. But what I want is the output to be wrapped accordingly,
> and my script to deliver exactly the output as expected. So say I want
> to generate HTML in my script, I can use :results output, but then I
> have to change to replace the #+being_example with #+begin_HTML.
>
> I guess that I can generate a two dimensional table with perl too
> using output (printing the necessary | and \n), but then it will be
> wrapped with #+begin_example.

Ok, I got it. What I need is to return a string with whatever I need.
A bit cumbersome, but I can live with it


#+begin_src perl :results html
"<table>
<b>a </b>
</table>
"
#+end_src

#+RESULTS:
#+BEGIN_HTML
<table>
<b>a </b>
</table>
#+END_HTML

thanks again for the explanation,

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--dmg

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