Hi Michael, Michael Baum wrote: > I haven't been able to figure this out from the org-mode documents yet. > What I would like to do is have a source code block in python or perl or > something similar. to which I can pass a reference to several lines of text > that the source code block, when evaluated, would then act on. Which would > involve iterating through the data text one line at a time and writing the > output to a buffer. > > The text data could be indicated by a specific headline or a named block of > some sort or maybe an internal link, I'm not particularly fussy just so > there's a mechanism to do this. > > Would appreciate any guidance.
#+name: lines-of-text : I haven't been able to figure this out from the org-mode documents yet. : What I would like to do is have a source code block in python or perl or : something similar. to which I can pass a reference to several lines of text : that the source code block, when evaluated, would then act on. Which would : involve iterating through the data text one line at a time and writing the : output to a buffer. #+begin_src sh :stdin lines-of-text :results output grep would #+end_src #+results: #+begin_example What I would like to do is have a source code block in python or perl or that the source code block, when evaluated, would then act on. Which would #+end_example Best regards, Seb -- Sebastien Vauban
