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[O] RE: [Orgmode] [HOW] no way to escape vertical bar (pipe char) in tab


From: Vladimir Alexiev
Subject: [O] RE: [Orgmode] [HOW] no way to escape vertical bar (pipe char) in tables?
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 10:16:12 +0200

> > what is the best way to manage
> > leading/trailing spaces in a table cell?
> This i don't understand -- you want to *keep* the spaces
> in the exported table?

Not all spaces, but some spaces some of the time is needed.

The recent patch to org-babel-read by Erik Schulte makes this possible. See 
second sentence below:

If a value starts with one of ('` it is read as an emacs lisp sexp.
If it starts with " then it's read as a quoted string: start/end quotes are 
stripped, \" and \\ are unescaped
   (this is useful for embedding leading/trailing whitespace in strings).
If it looks like a number, it's read as a number.
Else it's read as a literal string, without any quotation or escaping.
(Please note that | in tables is always interpreted as column separator and 
currently there is no way to quote it)





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