This code does not work because of automatic conversion from string tonumber in org-babel-read-table.
I found a workaround changing the table to : #+TBLNAME: table_test | name | id | |-------+-------| | name1 | "034" | | name2 | "135" | | name3 | 1B5 | but I think inhibiting number conversion could nevertheless be useful in a number of situations. François.