Re: [O] [PATCH] Process hlines in imported tables

[Rick Frankel]

On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 08:21:01PM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Rick Frankel writes:
> > Missed verbatim. Thanks for the pointer, it works, but i think that
> > perl is double-processing returned values. If we do the same things in
> > elisp i get (my) expected results:
> >
> > #+begin_src elisp :results raw
> >   "|c1|c2|
> >   |-
> >   |a|1|
> >   |b|2|";
> > #+end_src
> 
> Elisp is different from all other languages: it doesn't do any
> processing of strings to begin with for value returns.  The reason that
> Perl processes "raw" results is that org-babel-result-cond does not
> switch to the "scalar" path for this condition, which is why you need
> the extra "verbatim".  It probably should, though, so if Eric agrees
> then I will push a change that does this.

I agree. "raw" results should probably be treated as scalar (with
cycling of the output to reformat an table :).

BTW, I am having problems wrapping my head around verbatim.
>From testing, it seems that verbatim acts the same as scalar.

rick