DONE lob function for reading files
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This runs up against an increasingly common theme of tension between implementing functionality in org-babel vs. in host languages.
Nearly every language which would be used inside of a code block has it's own mechanisms for reading the contents from a file, so to what extent do we want to implement this functionality inside of org-babel vs. leaving this up to the host language.
I think this may be a good place for a library of babel function.
Once we have an lob function, say read-file then we can place
:var path="<doi:10.1000/182>" or :var path="doi:10.1000/182]]"
in a header argument to pass a path to a code block, and we can place
:var path=read-file(path="<doi:10.1000/182>") or :var path=read-file(path="doi:10.1000/182]]")
in a header argument to pass the contents of a file to a code block.
Should the files be returned as a string, or as a list of lines? How about both.
- read
- reads the file and returns one large string
- read-lines
- reads the file and returns a list of lines
(see the library of babel in contrib/babel/library-of-babel.org)