Re: Bug: Final zero after decimal point is stripped when inline code evaluated

[Max Nikulin]

On 06/05/2024 19:44, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
> Charles Millar writes:
> > #+NAME: TABLE2
> > |22578.60|
> >
> > src_latex[:var printthis=TABLE2[-1,-1] :eval yes :results replace
> > :exports results]{\num{printthis}} {{{results(@@latex:\num{22578.6}@@)}}}
>
> This is expected. When you assign :var, Org mode reads the table data,
> converting it to number.

After discussion of ob-shell related issues I am in doubts if org-babel 
should eagerly convert strings to numbers. Perhaps numbers should be 
recognized for specific backends only (or vice versa conversion should 
be suppressed for specific backends).

> #+name: TABLE2
> |"22578.60"|

It may require boilerplate code for post-processing causing inconvenience.