Hi Eric: Thanks a lot for your answers! Sorry for my late reply. Sincerely,
Feiming Chen --- On Sun, 8/28/11, Eric Schulte <schulte.e...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Eric Schulte <schulte.e...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [O] difference between "#+source" and "#+srcname"; passing parameters to Awk. To: "Feiming Chen" <feimingc...@yahoo.com> Cc: "emacs-org-list" <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org> Date: Sunday, August 28, 2011, 10:04 AM Feiming Chen <feimingc...@yahoo.com> writes: > Hi, I'd like to ask two questions. > > 1. What's the difference between header options "#+source" and "#+srcname"? > They seem to have identical utilities. > No difference, these are synonyms for the same thing. > > 2. I'd like to pass parameters (filenames) to Awk (language) code block, > but > > #+srcname: subset(file="~/tmp/a") > #+begin_src awk > > #+end_src > > fails upon "C-c C-v v" (org-babel-expand-src-block) with error: "wrong type > argument: sequencep, file". So does: > > #+begin_src awk :var file="~/tmp/a" > > #+end_src > > In comparison, it works with a Perl code block: > > #+srcname: subset(file="~/tmp/a") > #+begin_src perl > > #+end_src > > Thanks a lot! > This is actually a bug in ob-awk. I've just pushed up a fix so your example should work with the latest git HEAD. Thanks -- Eric > > -- Feiming Chen > -- Eric Schulte http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/