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From: Maurizio Vitale <maurizio.vitale@polymath-solutions.com>
Subject: Re: [babel] passing strings in
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>>>>> "Dan" == Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:

    Dan> Maurizio Vitale
    Dan> <mav@cuma.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me>
    Dan> writes:

    >> In the table/block pair below, I'm trying to pass an IP number to
    >> some shell code.

    Dan> Hi Maurizio,

    Dan> I think you've forgotten to specify that 'ip' is an argument of
    Dan> the system-ping block. So either add e.g. :var ip=0 or use
    Dan> #+source: system-ping(ip=0) (You can of course use any default
    Dan> argument value other than 0)

I used to have the argument specification. But then discovered it was
working without and since I didn't have a need for a default value, I
removed it.

Maybe this work accidentally and it is not supported.

    Dan> Additionally, I'm finding that the ip column needs to be
    Dan> single-quoted (whether it is an IP number or a human-readable
    Dan> alias). I'm rushing a bit at the moment, but that looks like a
    Dan> bug.

    Dan> So in any case, this works for me (also works with
    Dan> single-quoted IP numbers)

Thanks! 


        Maurizio