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1 ;;; ob-perl.el --- org-babel functions for perl evaluation
3 ;; Copyright (C) 2009-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 ;; Authors: Dan Davison
6 ;; Eric Schulte
7 ;; Keywords: literate programming, reproducible research
8 ;; Homepage: http://orgmode.org
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25 ;;; Commentary:
27 ;; Org-Babel support for evaluating perl source code.
29 ;;; Code:
30 (require 'ob)
31 (eval-when-compile (require 'cl))
33 (defvar org-babel-tangle-lang-exts)
34 (add-to-list 'org-babel-tangle-lang-exts '("perl" . "pl"))
36 (defvar org-babel-default-header-args:perl '())
38 (defvar org-babel-perl-command "perl"
39 "Name of command to use for executing perl code.")
41 (defun org-babel-execute:perl (body params)
42 "Execute a block of Perl code with Babel.
43 This function is called by `org-babel-execute-src-block'."
44 (let* ((session (cdr (assoc :session params)))
45 (result-params (cdr (assoc :result-params params)))
46 (result-type (cdr (assoc :result-type params)))
47 (full-body (org-babel-expand-body:generic
48 body params (org-babel-variable-assignments:perl params)))
49 (session (org-babel-perl-initiate-session session)))
50 (org-babel-reassemble-table
51 (org-babel-perl-evaluate session full-body result-type result-params)
52 (org-babel-pick-name
53 (cdr (assoc :colname-names params)) (cdr (assoc :colnames params)))
54 (org-babel-pick-name
55 (cdr (assoc :rowname-names params)) (cdr (assoc :rownames params))))))
57 (defun org-babel-prep-session:perl (session params)
58 "Prepare SESSION according to the header arguments in PARAMS."
59 (error "Sessions are not supported for Perl"))
61 (defun org-babel-variable-assignments:perl (params)
62 "Return list of perl statements assigning the block's variables."
63 (mapcar
64 (lambda (pair)
65 (org-babel-perl--var-to-perl (cdr pair) (car pair)))
66 (mapcar #'cdr (org-babel-get-header params :var))))
68 ;; helper functions
70 (defvar org-babel-perl-var-wrap "q(%s)"
71 "Wrapper for variables inserted into Perl code.")
73 (defvar org-babel-perl--lvl)
74 (defun org-babel-perl--var-to-perl (var &optional varn)
75 "Convert an elisp value to a perl variable.
76 The elisp value, VAR, is converted to a string of perl source code
77 specifying a var of the same value."
78 (if varn
79 (let ((org-babel-perl--lvl 0) (lvar (listp var)) prefix)
80 (concat "my $" (symbol-name varn) "=" (when lvar "\n")
81 (org-babel-perl--var-to-perl var)
82 ";\n"))
83 (let ((prefix (make-string (* 2 org-babel-perl--lvl) ?\ )))
84 (concat prefix
85 (if (listp var)
86 (let ((org-babel-perl--lvl (1+ org-babel-perl--lvl)))
87 (concat "[\n"
88 (mapconcat #'org-babel-perl--var-to-perl var "")
89 prefix "]"))
90 (format "q(%s)" var))
91 (unless (zerop org-babel-perl--lvl) ",\n")))))
93 (defvar org-babel-perl-buffers '(:default . nil))
95 (defun org-babel-perl-initiate-session (&optional session params)
96 "Return nil because sessions are not supported by perl."
97 nil)
99 (defvar org-babel-perl-wrapper-method "{
100 my $babel_sub = sub {
103 open my $BOH, qq(>%s) or die qq(Perl: Could not open output file.$/);
104 select $BOH;
105 my $rv = &$babel_sub();
106 my $rt = ref $rv;
107 if (qq(ARRAY) eq $rt) {
108 local $\\=$/;
109 local $,=qq(\t);
110 foreach my $rv ( @$rv ) {
111 my $rt = ref $rv;
112 if (qq(ARRAY) eq $rt) {
113 print @$rv;
114 } else {
115 print $rv;
118 } else {
119 print $rv;
123 (defvar org-babel-perl-preface nil)
125 (defvar org-babel-perl-pp-wrapper-method
126 nil)
128 (defun org-babel-perl-evaluate (session ibody &optional result-type result-params)
129 "Pass BODY to the Perl process in SESSION.
130 If RESULT-TYPE equals 'output then return a list of the outputs
131 of the statements in BODY, if RESULT-TYPE equals 'value then
132 return the value of the last statement in BODY, as elisp."
133 (when session (error "Sessions are not supported for Perl"))
134 (let ((body (concat org-babel-perl-preface ibody)))
135 (case result-type
136 (output (org-babel-eval org-babel-perl-command body))
137 (value (let ((tmp-file (org-babel-temp-file "perl-")))
138 (org-babel-eval
139 org-babel-perl-command
140 (format org-babel-perl-wrapper-method body
141 (org-babel-process-file-name tmp-file 'noquote)))
142 (org-babel-result-cond result-params
143 (with-temp-buffer
144 (insert-file-contents tmp-file)
145 (buffer-string))
146 (org-babel-import-elisp-from-file tmp-file '(16))))))))
148 (provide 'ob-perl)
152 ;;; ob-perl.el ends here