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From: "Charles C. Berry" <ccberry@ucsd.edu>
Subject: Re: function to select text of in a cell of a table
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2016 18:57:08 -0800
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On Fri, 30 Dec 2016, dmg wrote:

> hi everybody,
>
> has anybody written a function to select the text in a cell of a table?

If you mean like what ob-ref.el uses to support babel references, yes.

Also see org-table.el.

If you just want support for working with Babel src blocks, see

 	(info "(org) var")

HTH,

Chuck