[O] Re: [Orgmode] [HOW] no way to escape vertical bar (pipe char) in tables?

[Eric Schulte]

Vladimir Alexiev <address@hidden> writes:

> I want to manage some perl regexps in a table
> then feed them to a code block (literate programming).
> Unfortunately they include alternatives (|) 
> and the table editor thinks this is a column break.
>
> There's no way to escape this?
>

Using a different character (namely ¦) the following should work

#+source: clean
#+begin_src emacs-lisp :var in=""
  (flet ((clean (in)
                (if (listp in)
                    (mapcar #'clean in)
                  (if (stringp in)
                      (replace-regexp-in-string "¦" "|" in)
                    in))))
    (clean in))
#+end_src

#+results: regexps
| first  | (a¦b) |
| second | (1¦2) |

#+begin_src perl :var a=clean(in=regexps)[0,1] :var b=clean(in=regexps)[1,1]
  $a; $b;
#+end_src

#+results:
: (1|2)

Best -- Eric