Aloha Kaushal, Kaushal Modi writes:
> On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 2:22 PM Thomas S. Dye <t...@tsdye.com> wrote: > > Aloha Kaushal, > > There are four classes of :results header arguments. :results replace > refers to how the results are handled. :results verbatim refers to the > type of result returned. > > > Hi Thomas, > > Yes, I learned that from the org info manual. But it is still confusing > because > in the "Type" subsection in "(org) results" info node, it says: > >> The following options are mutually exclusive and specify what type of > results the code block will return. By default, results are inserted as > either a table or scalar depending on their value. > > So what determines if the results should be table formatted or kept verbatim > (scalar)? > -- I think I'm correct to say that by default a single value result is output as a scalar, and everything else is converted to an Org mode table. hth, Tom -- Thomas S. Dye http://www.tsdye.com