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From: Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org>
Subject: Re: Strings converted to numbers in Org table?
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 08:43:49 +0100
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On 2017-02-27 10:17, "Charles C. Berry" <ccberry@ucsd.edu> writes:

> IMHO, it is often best to handle formatting of output in the language of=
=20
> the src block.  There are some tools for doing this in R: the `ascii'=20
> package is one. `xtable' is another.

I've had the same problem when working with tables and ocaml, as the
latter requires everything in the table to have the same type, so I need
to make sure everything is a string. To work around this, I did the
following:

#+name: convert-table
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :var data=3Dtps
  (mapcar (lambda (row)
            (mapcar (lambda (cell)
                      (if
                          (numberp cell)
                          (number-to-string cell)
                        cell))
                    row))
          data)
#+END_SRC

#+BEGIN_SRC ocaml :var data=3Dconvert-table :results output raw
  (* ocaml code *)
#+END_SRC

Best,

Alan

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