Re: what's wrong with this sbe?

[Myles English <mylesenglish@gmail.com>]

>> On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:09:48 +0000, Myles English said:

>> On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 07:34:49 -0700, Eric Schulte said:

  >> Myles English <mylesenglish@gmail.com> writes:
  >>> Hi,
  >>> 
  >>> Please could tell me where I am going wrong with this?  I just
  >>> can't get the source block to put a result in the table.
  >   [etc]

  >> Hi Miles,

  >> To force the value of "236:30:00" to be interpreted as a string
  >> (rather than have sbe try to convert it to a number prefix the
  >> reference with a "$" character).  However even doing this your
  >> example exposed a bug in this sbe functionality to which I've just
  >> pushed up a fix.  With the latest version of Org-mode the attached
  >> works as expected.


  >> #+name: workingDays #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :var hms="0" (require
  >> 'org-timer) (/ (org-timer-hms-to-secs hms) (* 60 60 8)) #+END_SRC

  >> Note the variable reference is prefixed with a "$" to ensure that
  >> it is interpreted as a string.  See the `sbe' documentation for
  >> full `sbe' usage information.

  >> -- Eric Schulte http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/

  > Thanks Eryk that solves the problem!  I actually did try with an
  > extra "$" but it didn't work so I assumed that I had misunderstood
  > the documentation.  Reading the documentation again, I think it
  > could be improved, perhaps

Yeah, I got these two blocks the wrong way around:

  > #+begin_quote to force interpretation of a cell's value as a string,
  > prefix the identifier with two "$"s rather than a single
  > "$" #+end_quote

  > instead of

  > #+begin_quote to force interpretation of a cell's value as a string,
  > prefix the identifier with another "$", (e.g. @2$2 becomes
  > $@2$2) #+end_quote

  > Thanks again,

  > Myles


Myles