Re: How to escape characters in tables

From: <Ken.Williams@thomsonreuters.com>
To: e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to escape characters in tables
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 10:02:01 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C99516BF.243C0%ken.williams@thomsonreuters.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fwr4b3j8.fsf@ucl.ac.uk>

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On 3/3/11 9:57 AM, "Eric S Fraga" <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

><Ken.Williams@thomsonreuters.com> writes:
>
>>... I've got tables whose cells contain the '|'
>> character (it's a table of regular expressions), and I can't seem to
>> figure out how to escape it so that it doesn't mean a delimiter
>> between cells.  Anyone have advice or a pointer to the docs I can't
>> seem to find?
>
>I guess it all depends on what you want to do with the resulting
>document.  You could always insert a character that looks like the '|'
>character, such as the unicode "LIGHT VERTICAL BAR" (0x2758) character,
>'❘', and I'm sure there are others that could be used... org should
>ignore this character as a table delimiter.

Thanks Eric.  That's not a great solution in this case, because in order
to work in a regex it needs to be the character '|', 0x7C.

Is there some way to put in characters by ASCII code maybe?

--
Ken Williams
Senior Research Scientist
Thomson Reuters
http://labs.thomsonreuters.com

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