Greg Minshall <minsh...@umich.edu> writes:
> fwiw, tracing, the problem appears to be this line > ---- > ((eq (string-to-char cell) ?\") (read cell)) > ---- > in =org-babel-read=. > > presumably there are many cases where this is the right thing to do. > > but, maybe look for a simple =^"[^"]*"$= (i.e., a quotation mark, some > other stuff, a quotation mark, and *nothing* else in the cell)? > > or (heaven help us), something more complicated, with random escaped > quotation marks inside the "cell"? > > cheers, Greg The key question is what is the use case for having this 'mixed' content in a table cell? I really don't like the idea of adding even more regexp processing of contents in order to resolve complexities in data formats which are rare. the benefit of the line you identified is that it is simple and easy to maintain. There may be edge cases where it does not work correctly, but perhaps the right solution in those situations is fix the format of the data in the table rather than complicate the functions used to extract the data from a table.
