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From: Juan Pechiar <juan@pechiar.com>
To: Vikas Rawal <vikaslists@agrarianresearch.org>
Cc: org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Converting table to properties
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 10:06:38 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120606130638.GC6258@soloJazz.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <-8912430512402798276@unknownmsgid>

On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 05:55:52PM +0530, Vikas Rawal wrote:
> I have a table under each of several headlines in an org file. Each
> table has a row of column labels and a row of data. I would like to
> convert the table into properties, with labels coming from first row
> and values of properties coming from the second row.
>
> How should I do this?

Hi Vikas,

This is a quick hack on org-table-transpose-table-at-point to print
out a property list instead of a table.

#+begin_src elisp

(defun vikas-convert ()
  "table to props"
  (interactive)
  (let ((contents
         (apply #'mapcar* #'list
                ;; remove 'hline from list
                   (delq nil (mapcar (lambda (x) (when (listp x) x))
                                       (org-table-to-lisp))))))
    (delete-region (org-table-begin) (org-table-end))
    (insert "  :PROPERTIES:\n")
    (insert (mapconcat (lambda(x) (concat "  :" (first x) ": " (second
    x) "\n" ))
                       contents ""))
    (insert "  :END:\n\n")))

#+end_src

This transforms:

| PROP1 | PROP2 | PROP3 |
| 1     | 2     | 3     |

into

  :PROPERTIES:
  :PROP1: 1
  :PROP2: 2
  :PROP3: 3
  :END:

Hope it helps.
.j.

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2012-06-06 13:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-06 12:25 Converting table to properties Vikas Rawal
2012-06-06 13:06 ` Juan Pechiar [this message]
2012-06-07 23:44   ` Vikas Rawal

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