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From: Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [babel] feature request: extracting non-sequential columns and/or rows from a table
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 19:26:06 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87aacp1rg4.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87tyayqtek.fsf@ucl.ac.uk

Hi Eric,

Unfortunately I recently became very busy, so I will not be able to
address this any time soon.  However, the indexing behavior is self
contained in the `org-babel-ref-index-list' function, so feel free to
take a crack at that function.  If you are able to implement your syntax
as described below I would be happy to help fold in the change.

Cheers -- Eric

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> Hello,
>
> this is a very low priority request so please feel free to ignore or put
> at the bottom of what I'm sure is a long list of TODOs...
>
> I have a data table.  In different code blocks, I need to access
> different sets of columns (or rows) from this table.  At present, I am
> passing the whole table to the code blocks and then extracting the
> columns (or rows) within the code.  However, it would be nice if I could
> specify the actual column I want directly in the :var header argument,
> such as
>
> :  #+begin_src octave :var data=mytable[0:-1;1:3,5:6]
>
> where I've used a semi-colon to separate dimension indices and used a
> comma to separate multiple ranges within an index.  This, I realise, is
> a change to the current syntax... but I'm doing this just for
> illustration.
>
> As I said, I have a workaround so this is indeed a low priority request!
>
> Thanks,
> eric

-- 
Eric Schulte
http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/

  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-08  1:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-07 10:25 [babel] feature request: extracting non-sequential columns and/or rows from a table Eric S Fraga
2011-07-08  1:26 ` Eric Schulte [this message]
2011-07-08  8:59   ` Eric S Fraga

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