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From: Jeffrey Brent McBeth <mcbeth@broggs.org>
Subject: Re: org-table relative reference questions
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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

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