>> On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:09:48 +0000, Myles English said: >> On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 07:34:49 -0700, Eric Schulte said:
>> Myles English <mylesengl...@gmail.com> writes: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Please could tell me where I am going wrong with this? I just >>> can't get the source block to put a result in the table. > [etc] >> Hi Miles, >> To force the value of "236:30:00" to be interpreted as a string >> (rather than have sbe try to convert it to a number prefix the >> reference with a "$" character). However even doing this your >> example exposed a bug in this sbe functionality to which I've just >> pushed up a fix. With the latest version of Org-mode the attached >> works as expected. >> #+name: workingDays #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :var hms="0" (require >> 'org-timer) (/ (org-timer-hms-to-secs hms) (* 60 60 8)) #+END_SRC >> Note the variable reference is prefixed with a "$" to ensure that >> it is interpreted as a string. See the `sbe' documentation for >> full `sbe' usage information. >> -- Eric Schulte http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/ > Thanks Eryk that solves the problem! I actually did try with an > extra "$" but it didn't work so I assumed that I had misunderstood > the documentation. Reading the documentation again, I think it > could be improved, perhaps Yeah, I got these two blocks the wrong way around: > #+begin_quote to force interpretation of a cell's value as a string, > prefix the identifier with two "$"s rather than a single > "$" #+end_quote > instead of > #+begin_quote to force interpretation of a cell's value as a string, > prefix the identifier with another "$", (e.g. @2$2 becomes > $@2$2) #+end_quote > Thanks again, > Myles Myles
