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Re: [O] How to pass a block of text to a code block as data?


From: Sebastien Vauban
Subject: Re: [O] How to pass a block of text to a code block as data?
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2013 21:17:32 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.2.91 (windows-nt)

Hi Michael,

Michael Baum wrote:
> I haven't been able to figure this out from the org-mode documents yet.
> What I would like to do is have a source code block in python or perl or
> something similar. to which I can pass a reference to several lines of text
> that the source code block, when evaluated, would then act on. Which would
> involve iterating through the data text one line at a time and writing the
> output to a buffer.
>
> The text data could be indicated by a specific headline or a named block of
> some sort or maybe an internal link, I'm not particularly fussy just so
> there's a mechanism to do this.
>
> Would appreciate any guidance.

#+name: lines-of-text
: I haven't been able to figure this out from the org-mode documents yet.
: What I would like to do is have a source code block in python or perl or
: something similar. to which I can pass a reference to several lines of text
: that the source code block, when evaluated, would then act on. Which would
: involve iterating through the data text one line at a time and writing the
: output to a buffer.

#+begin_src sh :stdin lines-of-text :results output
  grep would
#+end_src

#+results:
#+begin_example
What I would like to do is have a source code block in python or perl or
that the source code block, when evaluated, would then act on. Which would
#+end_example

Best regards,
  Seb

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Sebastien Vauban




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