Johan: To use expanded noweb references you can use text source blocks
#+NAME: lscode #+BEGIN_SRC *text* ls -alh #+END_SRC #+NAME: example #+BEGIN_SRC sh :noweb yes echo <<lscode>> #+END_SRC #+RESULTS: example : ls -alh #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :var code=example (message code) #+END_SRC #+RESULTS: : ls -alh Martín On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 10:36 AM Martin Alsinet <mar...@alsinet.com.ar> wrote: > Johan: > > You can try the following: > > #+NAME: lscode > #+BEGIN_ASCII > ls -alh > #+END_ASCII > > #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :var code=lscode > (message code) > #+END_SRC > > #+RESULTS: > : ls -alh > > I haven't tried the noweb references, but it does return the code block in > the variable. > > > Martín > > On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 9:22 AM Johan W. Klüwer <johan.w.klu...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Is there a way to assign the uninterpreted content of an executable >> source block to a variable? Preferably, using a :var header argument? That >> is, return the text in the block, not the result of evaluating it, and >> preferably with noweb references expanded. >> >> "example" blocks return text the way I want, but they can't be evaluated, >> and of course noweb is ruled out for them. >> >> The function org-babel-ref-resolve could to the job if there were a >> switch to block evaluation. >> >> >> Why this is interesting: I wish to use url-hexify-string on the text of a >> named SPARQL query. >> >> Cheers, Johan >> >
