Re: Preventing RESULTS from being formatted as org table [ob-awk]

["Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.com>]

Aloha Kaushal,

Kaushal Modi writes:

> On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 2:22 PM Thomas S. Dye <tsd@tsdye.com> wrote:
>
>     Aloha Kaushal,
>
>     There are four classes of :results header arguments. :results replace
>     refers to how the results are handled. :results verbatim refers to the
>     type of result returned.
>
>
> Hi Thomas,
>
> Yes, I learned that from the org info manual. But it is still confusing because
> in the "Type" subsection in "(org) results" info node, it says:
>
>> The following options are mutually exclusive and specify what type of
> results the code block will return. By default, results are inserted as
> either a table or scalar depending on their value.
>
> So what determines if the results should be table formatted or kept verbatim
> (scalar)?
> --

I think I'm correct to say that by default a single value result is
output as a scalar, and everything else is converted to an Org mode
table.

hth,
Tom

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