From: Ken Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Babel trims leading 0s for certain numbers of tables
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2016 09:35:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2vb0daa5x.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eg713a2y.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net>
On 2016-07-10 at 13:18, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
> Ken Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I've just discovered that when Org results are returned in a table,
>> they are modified in that leading 0s are removed. Is this a feature? A
>> bug? Is there a workaround for this? Leading 0s are not removed if the
>> result is a string, but in many cases a string of numbers is still a
>> string and should retain those 0s.
>
> Maybe you can use a format specifier for that column, so the
> zero-padding is retained?
Maybe. Can you provide an example? Adding a #+TBLFM: after the table doesn't do it, and I'm not sure how to specify result formatting at this level of detail in babel header block arguments.
-k.
#+BEGIN_SRC sh :results table
echo "0042"
#+END_SRC
#+RESULTS:
| 42 |
#+TBLFM: @1=@1;N
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-10 12:38 Babel trims leading 0s for certain numbers of tables Ken Mankoff
2016-07-10 13:18 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2016-07-10 13:35 ` Ken Mankoff [this message]
2016-07-10 16:50 ` Charles C. Berry
2016-07-10 17:37 ` Ken Mankoff
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