Pipe character in a table cell?

Pipe character in a table cell?

[Daniel E. Doherty]

All,

I would like to put a string with an embedded pipe character in the
cell.  The idea is to display regular expressions, which inevitably
contain pipe characters.  I've tried /one|two/, one\|two, "one|two", and even
"one\|two", but they all split the entry into two cells.

Is there anyway to escape the pipe character so that the cell is not
split by it?

If not, may I suggest this as a feature request.  Preferably, allow a
pipe to be embedded in quotes to be ignored?

Regards

Dan Doherty

Re: Pipe character in a table cell?

[Jambunathan K]

Daniel E. Doherty <ded-law@ddoherty.net> writes:

> All,
>
> I would like to put a string with an embedded pipe character in the
> cell.  The idea is to display regular expressions, which inevitably
> contain pipe characters.  I've tried /one|two/, one\|two, "one|two", and even
> "one\|two", but they all split the entry into two cells.
>
> Is there anyway to escape the pipe character so that the cell is not
> split by it?
>
> If not, may I suggest this as a feature request.  Preferably, allow a
> pipe to be embedded in quotes to be ignored?

\vert

> Regards
>
> Dan Doherty
>
>

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Re: Pipe character in a table cell?

[Daniel E. Doherty]

KJ,

Thanks.  I had not noticed that little footnote in the Org manual.  This
allows me to read and display the regular expression, so that's
progress.

I am a bit concerned about the fate of a naive user who comes to editing
the thing, but how naive can you be if your editing regular expressions,
right?

Regards,

Dan
At Mon, 28 May 2012 20:05:32 +0530,
Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Daniel E. Doherty <ded-law@ddoherty.net> writes:
> 
> > All,
> >
> > I would like to put a string with an embedded pipe character in the
> > cell.  The idea is to display regular expressions, which inevitably
> > contain pipe characters.  I've tried /one|two/, one\|two, "one|two", and even
> > "one\|two", but they all split the entry into two cells.
> >
> > Is there anyway to escape the pipe character so that the cell is not
> > split by it?
> >
> > If not, may I suggest this as a feature request.  Preferably, allow a
> > pipe to be embedded in quotes to be ignored?
> 
> \vert
> 
> > Regards
> >
> > Dan Doherty
> >
> >
> 
> --