Re: Handling conversion of fields with spaces to tables
On Tuesday, 7 Dec 2021 at 08:09, Loris Bennett wrote: > However, I can just pipe the output through 'sed' to get one at the > beginning, so all is well. Excellent! sed is one of the most underrated tools in our arsenal and actually highlights the great thing about org being all about text. -- : Eric S Fraga, with org release_9.5.1-243-gad53c5 in Emacs 29.0.50 : Latest paper written in org: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.05096
Re: Handling conversion of fields with spaces to tables
Eric S Fraga writes: > On Monday, 6 Dec 2021 at 15:43, Loris Bennett wrote: >> That's solves the problem of the field being split, but gives me the new >> problem that the output is no longer a table :-) > > Ah, yes, sorry: you need to have each line of the output start with a > "|" as well. If your external script can do that, it should work. > > As in: > > #+BEGIN_SRC sh :results output raw > echo "|marie|Curie|123" > echo "|louis|De Broglie|456" > #+END_SRC > > #+RESULTS: > | marie | Curie | 123 | > | louis | De Broglie | 456 | For what ever reason, the external script has an option to add "|" at the end of each line, but not at the beginning. However, I can just pipe the output through 'sed' to get one at the beginning, so all is well. Thanks for the help! Cheers, Loris -- This signature is currently under construction.
Re: Handling conversion of fields with spaces to tables
On Monday, 6 Dec 2021 at 15:43, Loris Bennett wrote: > That's solves the problem of the field being split, but gives me the new > problem that the output is no longer a table :-) Ah, yes, sorry: you need to have each line of the output start with a "|" as well. If your external script can do that, it should work. As in: #+BEGIN_SRC sh :results output raw echo "|marie|Curie|123" echo "|louis|De Broglie|456" #+END_SRC #+RESULTS: | marie | Curie | 123 | | louis | De Broglie | 456 | -- : Eric S Fraga, with org release_9.5.1-243-gad53c5 in Emacs 29.0.50 : Latest paper written in org: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.05096
Re: Handling conversion of fields with spaces to tables
Hi Eric, Eric S Fraga writes: > This might work for you: > > #+BEGIN_SRC sh :results output raw That's solves the problem of the field being split, but gives me the new problem that the output is no longer a table :-) To elaborate: My goal is to combine this output with data from another table to create a third table. Cheers, Loris -- This signature is currently under construction.
Re: Handling conversion of fields with spaces to tables
This might work for you: #+BEGIN_SRC sh :results output raw -- : Eric S Fraga, with org release_9.5.1-243-gad53c5 in Emacs 29.0.50 : Latest paper written in org: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.05096
