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From: Jeffrey Brent McBeth <mcbeth@broggs.org>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: org-table relative reference questions
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 10:43:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150421144347.GF16503@broggs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALn3zohvjdG3HW0fU1tyWxcFNf-FYGteToqt0jYM0piWBWA3wA@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 10:13:53AM +0200, Michael Brand wrote:
> Hi Jeffrey
> 
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 3:35 PM, Jeffrey Brent McBeth <mcbeth@broggs.org> wrote:
> > I'm looking for a way to reference a row or column on both the left
> > side and right side of a table formula that is "easily" manipulable.
> 
> As you noticed the left side is very limited compared to the right
> side. The solution below keeps the left side simple. "x" is used as a
> movable marker to indicate the beginning of the range:
> 
> | F | A | B |  C |
> |---+---+---+----|
> | x | 1 | 3 |  4 |
> |   | 2 | 4 | 69 |
> |---+---+---+----|
> |   | 3 |   |    |
> #+TBLFM: @>$2 = vsum(subvec(@I$2..@II$2, find(@I$1..@II$1, x), 0)); E
> :: @<<$4..@>>$4 = if("$1" == "(x)", $-2 + $-1, $0)

That is awesome.  subvec and if seem to be two very powerful tools that I've missed as I've trawled the documentation.  Thank you so much.

Jeff

-- 
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over 
 the man who cannot read them."
 -- Mark Twain

      reply	other threads:[~2015-04-21 14:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-20 13:35 org-table relative reference questions Jeffrey Brent McBeth
2015-04-20 14:38 ` Jeffrey Brent McBeth
2015-04-21  8:13 ` Michael Brand
2015-04-21 14:43   ` Jeffrey Brent McBeth [this message]

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