On 09/06/17 05:56, Keith Amidon wrote:
With current org-mode, when I try to execute the following org-babel
block:
#+begin_src bash :var lst='(1 2 3 4 5 6 7)
printf "%s\n" "${lst[*]}"
#+end_src
I get result and the following error in the minibuffer:
Wrong type argument: listp, 1
This, on the other hand works fine:
#+begin_src emacs-lisp :var lst='(1 2 3 4 5 6 7)
lst
#+end_src
In investigating this, I looked into the code for how bash variables
are set from the org variables and found this code in ob-shell that I
don't really understand:
(defun org-babel--variable-assignments:bash (varname values &optional sep hline)
"Represents the parameters as useful Bash shell variables."
(if (listp values)
(if (and (listp (car values)) (= 1 (length (car values))))
(org-babel--variable-assignments:bash_array varname values sep hline)
(org-babel--variable-assignments:bash_assoc varname values sep hline))
(org-babel--variable-assignments:sh-generic varname values sep hline)))
Based on that code, I'd expect this to work, and it does:
#+begin_src bash :var lst='((1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7))
printf "%s\n" "${lst[*]}"
#+end_src
#+RESULTS:
: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
But I agree that it would still be nice if the more intuitive form that
you mentioned also worked.
Regards,
Neil
