On 2014-04-17 12:24, Thorsten Jolitz <tjol...@gmail.com> writes: > Alan Schmitt <alan.schm...@polytechnique.org> writes: > >>> #+name:test2 >>> #+begin_src emacs-lisp :var z="bar" >>> (let ((y (org-sbe test1 (x (intern z))))) >>> y) >>> #+end_src >> >> Thank you for the suggestion, but it returns a symbol and not the >> string. In the more complex setting I'm playing with I need a string >> there. > > w/o knowing what this thread is about (since I did not follow it) I > would say that all you need is > > ,---------------- > | (symbol-name y) > `---------------- > > as last expression.
Thanks, this helped me much! So the solution is to use "eval", which seems to be interpreted by org-sbe: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- #+name: test1 #+begin_src emacs-lisp :var x="foo" x #+end_src #+name: test2 #+begin_src emacs-lisp :var z="bar" (let ((y (org-sbe test1 (x (eval z))))) y) #+end_src #+results: test2 : bar #+call: test2(z="baz") #+results: : baz --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- I still would really like what can (and cannot) be done with sbe, but this should be enough to let me make progress. Thanks again, Alan