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Re: [O] what's wrong with this sbe?
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Myles English |
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Re: [O] what's wrong with this sbe? |
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Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:17:14 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) |
>> On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:09:48 +0000, Myles English said:
>> 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 "$" but it didn't work so I assumed that I had misunderstood
> the documentation. Reading the documentation again, I think it
> could be improved, perhaps
Yeah, I got these two blocks the wrong way around:
> #+begin_quote to force interpretation of a cell's value as a string,
> prefix the identifier with two "$"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,
> Myles
Myles