Re: [O] how to force org-mode to interpret number as string

[Eric Schulte]

Stefan Huchler <address@hidden> writes:

> Bastien <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hi Stefan,
>>
>> Stefan Huchler <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> The Problem is that that org-mode seems to auto-format the salary column
>>> as a number.
>>
>> That a problem here, but I guess this is handy in many circumstances.
>>
>> Why don't use just turn the number into a string in your code?
>
> if I could do that, without loosing the numbers behind the point I would
> be ok with that, but I dont want a fixed system for 1 table, but for a
> random table. 
>

I think that for this to work you may have to abandon using "." as your
numerical thousands separator.  Or customize string-to-number and
org-babel-number-p to fit your number syntax.

Best,

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