This is correct now. Thanks very much. You're right.

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On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 12:57 AM, Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 7:41 PM numbchild@gmail.com <numbchild@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Which Org-mode version are you using? I'm using the latest Org-mode
>> version from source code branch `master`.
>>
>
> I am using the same.
>
>
>> When I use your `:noweb-ref` style like this:
>>
>> ```org
>> * noweb reference with argument
>>
>> #+BEGIN_SRC sh :var str="" :noweb-ref sh-print-something
>> echo "$str"
>> #+END_SRC
>>
>> #+BEGIN_SRC sh :results output :noweb yes
>> echo "hello, "
>> <<sh-print-something(str="stardiviner")>>
>> #+END_SRC
>>
>> #+RESULTS:
>> ```
>>
>> Emacs reports error:
>>
>> org-babel-ref-resolve: Reference ‘sh-print-something’ not found in this
>> buffer.
>>
>> Org-mode version: Org mode version 9.0.8 (9.0.8-elpaplus @
>> /home/stardiviner/Code/Emacs/org-mode/lisp/)
>>
>
> I stand corrected; for the stuff that you are doing, I believe the code
> block name needs to go to #+NAME instead of to :noweb-ref.
>
> Below works (Hit C-c C-c in the second source block and approve evaluating
> that code block:
>
> * noweb reference with argument
>
> #+NAME: sh-print-something
> #+BEGIN_SRC shell :var str=""
> echo echo $str
> #+END_SRC
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC shell :results output :noweb yes
> echo "hello, "
> <<sh-print-something(str="stardiviner")>>
> #+END_SRC
>
> #+RESULTS:
> : hello,
> : stardiviner
>
> Changes:
>
> (1) Switched back to #+NAME from :noweb-ref. Looks like if you need to
> pass args, the reference name needs to be a code block name because
> <<foo(bar=1)>> inserts the *results* of the code block "foo", not "foo" as
> it is.
> (2) So in the first block, you need to have code that *outputs* "echo
> $str" with $str set to your set arg.
> (3) Use shell instead of sh.
>
> To stress the point of "<<foo(bar=1)>> inserts the *results*", even the
> below would work the same way as we care about the results output by the
> first block, not how those results are obtained.
>
> * noweb reference with argument
>
> #+NAME: sh-print-something
> #+BEGIN_SRC python :var str="foo" :results output
> print('echo "' + str + '"')
> #+END_SRC
>
> #+RESULTS: sh-print-something
> : echo "foo"
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC shell :results output :noweb yes
> echo "hello, "
> <<sh-print-something(str="stardiviner")>>
> #+END_SRC
>
> #+RESULTS:
> : hello,
> : stardiviner
>
> --
>
> Kaushal Modi
>