>> I think that for this to work you may have to abandon using "." as your
>> numerical thousands separator. Or customize string-to-number and
>> org-babel-number-p to fit your number syntax.
>>
>> Best,
>
> I think the way I have to go is to use export the table to csv then it
> looses some of its "cleverness" and does what it should do in the first
> place.
>
> Hmm I just thought a second, maybe it does also do that
> data-manipulation also before it exports it, but no org-table-export
> does export it like a string.
>
> So here you have one bug, its inconsistent.
>
Automatically recognizing numbers in tables is useful when converting
tables to code, but would make no sense for CSV export. I don't see a
problem here.
>
> Sorry that I am maybe not so constructive but it´s stuff that should
> work and now you say that I should fix that upstream with me having
> written 50 lines of lisp code in my life.
>
I suggested that you remove "." from your numbers. You could also wrap
your numbers in "s.
#+name: example
| "100.00000000" |
#+begin_src emacs-lisp :var example=example
(caar example)
#+end_src
#+RESULTS:
: 100.00000000
Furthermore, when I said "customize" I did not mean "fix upstream", I
meant re-define org-babel-number-p in your *personal* config file. I
apologize if this was not clear.
>
> But sorry I really flame to much, I just find some stuff really stupid,
> as example why did I need to make out of a table a dict in the first
> place to put it into a list with lists is really stupid, dicts are more
> confortable I know in elisp maybe it has another name, but its similar
> and even in python I get no list of dicts (lines).
>
> Is it because of monstroses big Tables and performance problems?
>
I would argue that the list of lists representation is indeed more
commonly useful than converting a table to a list of dictionaries keyed
by the header row. Maybe you will find the following helpful.
#+TBLNAME: jobs
| jobname | city | salary | email |
| Taxi-driver | New York City | 500.000 | ma...@gotham-city.com |
| Butcher | Peking | 5.000 | jinp...@china.cn |
#+name: table-w-headers-to-list-of-key-value
#+begin_src emacs-lisp :var data='()
(let ((keys (car data))
(vals (cdr data)))
(mapcar (lambda (row) (map 'list #'cons keys row)) vals))
#+end_src
Example usage, pull the email from each value.
#+begin_src emacs-lisp :var data=table-w-headers-to-list-of-key-value(jobs)
(mapcar (lambda (row) (cdr (assoc "email" row))) data)
#+end_src
#+RESULTS:
| ma...@gotham-city.com | jinp...@china.cn |
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