Re: Help with tangling a table into a source-code representation of the data contained within

[tsd@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye)]

Aloha Grant,

Grant Rettke <gcr@wisdomandwonder.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> My goal is to define a table in org-mode, display it nicely to humans
> using export, and tangle that same data table into
> an elisp data structure for use elsewhere within the program. It might
> look something like this:
>
> ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
>
> * Modes
>
> This is a place for humans to keep track both of what
> modes activated for what file types; and also what utilies are used
> with those modes when they are activated.
>
> #+tblname: modes_data
> | mode name | file_type | paredit | auto-save |
> |-----------+-----------+---------+-----------|
> | scheme | .scm  | yes     | yes       |
> | elisp     | .el       | yes     | yes       |
> | ielm      | nil       | yes     | no        |
>
> * Test
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp :noweb tangle :tangle test.el
>   (mapcar (lambda (row) (message (car row))) modes_data)
> #+end_src

I think you want:
#+header: :var modes-data=modes-data

or something similar.

hth,
Tom

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