hi. i just wandered down a rathole others could avoid. the following
program fails in (what was to me) a mysterious way:
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#+BEGIN_SRC awk :var a=2
BEGIN{print $a;}
#+END_SRC
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it turns out values for variables to awk need to be strings (rather than
a number, as above). below is a patch to give what might be a less
mysterious error message.
also: for an awk invocation with ":var a=b", all occurrences of "$a" in
the body of the awk code are changed to "b". i'm curious why this is
done rather than invoking awk with "-v a=b"? or, moving the
initialization into a "BEGIN{}" block? maybe because of the variety of
awk variants loose in the world?
cheers, Greg
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diff --git a/lisp/ob-awk.el b/lisp/ob-awk.el
index ed98afd..162ddfb 100644
--- a/lisp/ob-awk.el
+++ b/lisp/ob-awk.el
@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@
(defun org-babel-expand-body:awk (body params)
"Expand BODY according to PARAMS, return the expanded body."
(dolist (pair (mapcar #'cdr (org-babel-get-header params :var)))
+ (if (not (stringp (cdr pair)))
+ (error "awk variable values must be strings"))
(setf body (replace-regexp-in-string
(regexp-quote (format "$%s" (car pair))) (cdr pair) body)))
body)
