Re: [BUG] ob-shell: results missing leading quotes

[Max Nikulin]

On 29/04/2024 18:58, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
> The nested "..." are stripped on purpose via `org-babel-string-read'.
> Although this function dates back to R output processing and I do not
> fully understand why stripping nested quotes is useful for all possible
> babel backends. But that's a completely different story.

I would say heuristics is quite fragile

#+begin_src elisp :results verbatim
  (org-babel-string-read "\"1 2\" 3 \"4 5\"")
#+end_src

#+RESULTS:
: "1 2\" 3 \"4 5"

Leading and trailing quote characters are not stripped in the case of

#+begin_src elisp :results verbatim
  (org-babel-read "\"1 2\" 3 \"4 5\"" t)
#+end_src

#+RESULTS:
: "\"1 2\" 3 \"4 5\""