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

[Ihor Radchenko]

Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> writes:

> 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).

Maybe. But changing the current behavior is not trivial - a lot of code
relies upon it implicitly. If anyone wants to work on more
fine-grained control over Org markup -> Elisp conversion, feel free.

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