Re: Importing "quoted" strings in `org-babel-import-elisp-from-file'

[Max Nikulin]

On 04/05/2024 15:03, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
> Max Nikulin writes:
> > I have no idea if "other\n\"string\"\nlines" may be passed
> > `org-babel-read', but it is not discarded by the current regexp:
> >
> > "^[[:space:]]*\"\\(.*\\)\"[[:space:]]*$"
>
> I do not see why we should limit things to single-line strings.

Quotes are not stripped:

(org-babel-read "\"abc\nsdf\"" t)
"\"abc
sdf\""

(org-babel-read "(\n\"abc\"\n" t)

progn: End of file during parsing

My conclusion that the current regexp may give both false positives and 
false negatives. `read` errors are not handled, but likely it is a 
result of wrong guarding regexp.

> 1. read is faster

I would not argue since I have no benchmark. My expectation was that 
replace is mostly no-op, so original string is returned while using 
`read' requires some overhead for a temporary buffer.

> 2. read is less maintenance - we can rely upon robust implementation
>     provided by Emacs itself instead of doing something custom, with
>     potential bugs.