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Re: [O] what's wrong with this sbe?
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Eric Schulte |
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Re: [O] what's wrong with this sbe? |
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Mon, 05 Mar 2012 10:46:39 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.93 (gnu/linux) |
Myles English <address@hidden> writes:
>>> On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 07:34:49 -0700, Eric Schulte said:
>
> > Myles English <address@hidden> writes:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Please could tell me where I am going wrong with this? I just
> >> can't get the source block to put a result in the table.
> [etc]
>
> > Hi Miles,
>
> > To force the value of "236:30:00" to be interpreted as a string
> > (rather than have sbe try to convert it to a number prefix the
> > reference with a "$" character). However even doing this your
> > example exposed a bug in this sbe functionality to which I've just
> > pushed up a fix. With the latest version of Org-mode the attached
> > works as expected.
>
>
> > #+name: workingDays #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :var hms="0" (require
> > 'org-timer) (/ (org-timer-hms-to-secs hms) (* 60 60 8)) #+END_SRC
>
> > Note the variable reference is prefixed with a "$" to ensure that it
> > is interpreted as a string. See the `sbe' documentation for full
> > `sbe' usage information.
>
> > -- Eric Schulte http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/
>
> Thanks Eryk that solves the problem! I actually did try with an extra
> "$" but it didn't work so I assumed that I had misunderstood the
> documentation. Reading the documentation again, I think it could be
> improved, perhaps
>
> #+begin_quote
> to force interpretation of a cell's value as a string, prefix the
> identifier with two "$"s rather than a single "$"
> #+end_quote
>
> instead of
>
> #+begin_quote
> to force interpretation of a cell's value as a string, prefix the
> identifier with another "$", (e.g. @2$2 becomes address@hidden)
> #+end_quote
>
> Thanks again,
>
Good idea, I've just pushed up a documentation improvement.
Thanks,
>
> Myles
--
Eric Schulte
http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/