Re: [O] RE: [Orgmode] Re: org-babel-read should have option NOT to interpret as elisp

[Eric Schulte]

"Vladimir Alexiev" <address@hidden> writes:

>> I've applied the patch
>> attached to my previous email and unless there is a real push-back ...
>
> Could you add handling of quoted strings?

I believe quoted strings are already handled, e.g.,

#+results: elisp-looking-table
| 1 | (a b c)   |
| 2 | "(a b c)" |

#+headers: :var without=elisp-looking-table[0,1]
#+headers:    :var with=elisp-looking-table[1,1]
#+begin_src perl
  $with, $without
#+end_src

#+results:
: "(a b c)"
: (a b c)

> 
> And most importantly, document all of this in "(org)var".  Here is a
> merged dscription:
>

Thanks for the reminder, I have  updated the documentation.

Best -- Eric

>
> If a value starts with one of ('` it is read as an emacs lisp sexp.
> If it starts with " then it's read as a quoted string: start/end
> quotes are stripped, \" and \\ are unescaped (this is useful for
> embedding leading/trailing whitespace in strings).  If it looks like a
> number, it's read as a number.  Else it's read as a literal string,
> without any quotation or escaping.  (Please note that | in tables is
> always interpreted as column separator and currently there is no way
> to quote it)
>
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