Re: [O] [bug?] Copy content from one to another table changes the content

[Torsten Wagner]

Hi again,

I can confirm that behaviour for org-mode < 8.0 (tested on 7.9.3f) if that matter.

Furtermore, I tested a lot of alternatives.
"lastname, firstname"

lastname, firstname

lastname; firstname

etc.

It seems, they all get somehow evaluated by calc, which ends up in funny different results.

I do not understand what was the intention of letting the code be parsed by calc but it seems to cause trouble.

Will test to comment how to get around it

Thanks

Torsten

On 15 July 2013 11:43, Torsten Wagner <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Nick,

very good observation. Just wonder are we the first who observe this problem?!

It seems org-table-make-reference and calc-eval have some sort of an different idea of the data content.

Yes calc use that notation to deal with imaginary numbers. Funny coincidence, the students in that list just struggle with exactly those imaginary numbers and now there names became a imaginary number itself... ;)

Thanks for the tip, I will see if some search and replace helps me to create a intermediate solution.

Thanks

Torsten

On 14 July 2013 05:29, Nick Dokos <address@hidden> wrote:

Torsten Wagner <address@hidden> writes:

> I just notice a strange behaviour within tables. I want to copy a
> column of one table into another... using $1=remote(prf94120_orig,
> @@#$6). The original content consist of names in the form
> "lastname,firstnames". However, executing the above formular I receive
> "lastname + firstnames i"
>
> I have totally no clue what is the reason for that.... a bug?!
> Happens within Org-mode version 8.0.3
>

I tried it (on a single table too - no remote) and I get the same
behavior. I can't pretend to understand how anything in org-table.el
works, but I think this is a clue: on line 2678,
org-table-make-reference is called. If I call it by hand like this

  (org-table-make-reference "a, b" nil nil nil) --> "(a, b)"

Then on line 2706, calc-eval is called. If I call it by hand on the
value above

  (calc-eval "(a, b)") --> "a + b i"

I think it's trying to do arithmetic on complex numbers...
--
Nick