Torsten Wagner <torsten.wag...@gmail.com> writes: > > I can confirm that behaviour for org-mode < 8.0 (tested on 7.9.3f) if that > matter. > Furtermore, I tested a lot of alternatives. > "lastname, firstname" > lastname, firstname > lastname; firstname > etc. > It seems, they all get somehow evaluated by calc, which ends up in funny > different results. > I do not understand what was the intention of letting the code be parsed by > calc but it seems to cause trouble. >
As I said, I don't know much about the implementation of tables, but I think passing every entry in the table through calc is by design. And it does not need to cause trouble either: (calc-eval "abc, def") ---> "abc, def" So trying to selectively *not* pass a cell through calc seems to be the wrong way to go. > Will test to comment how to get around it > > Thanks > Torsten > > On 15 July 2013 11:43, Torsten Wagner <torsten.wag...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Nick, > > very good observation. Just wonder are we the first who observe this > problem?! > It seems org-table-make-reference and calc-eval have some sort of an > different idea of the data content. > Yes calc use that notation to deal with imaginary numbers. Funny > coincidence, the students in that list just struggle with exactly those > imaginary numbers and now there names > became a imaginary number itself... ;) > > Thanks for the tip, I will see if some search and replace helps me to > create a intermediate solution. > > Thanks > > Torsten > > On 14 July 2013 05:29, Nick Dokos <ndo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Torsten Wagner <torsten.wag...@gmail.com> writes: > > > I just notice a strange behaviour within tables. I want to copy a > > column of one table into another... using $1=remote(prf94120_orig, > > @@#$6). The original content consist of names in the form > > "lastname,firstnames". However, executing the above formular I > receive > > "lastname + firstnames i" > > > > I have totally no clue what is the reason for that.... a bug?! > > Happens within Org-mode version 8.0.3 > > > > I tried it (on a single table too - no remote) and I get the same > behavior. I can't pretend to understand how anything in org-table.el > works, but I think this is a clue: on line 2678, > org-table-make-reference is called. If I call it by hand like this > > (org-table-make-reference "a, b" nil nil nil) --> "(a, b)" > > Then on line 2706, calc-eval is called. If I call it by hand on the > value above > > (calc-eval "(a, b)") --> "a + b i" > > I think it's trying to do arithmetic on complex numbers... > -- > Nick > -- Nick
