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From: "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: problem with empty column
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2018 10:25:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fu7ky7w4.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87h8s0yaj5.fsf@mat.ucm.es

Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

> Hi
>
> Consider please the following table
>
>
>
> | Name   | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | Res |
> |--------+----+----+----+----+-----|
> | Entry1 |    |    |    |    | NP  |
> | Entry2 | 10 | 20 | 30 | 40 | 10  |
>
> #+TBLFM: $6=if("$2" == "nan" , string("NP"),($2+$3+$4+$5)/10);E
>
> The last column contains a string NP if the corresponding cell in the
> second column is empty.
>
> However when   I consider
>
> | Name   | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | Res |
> |--------+----+----+----+----+-----|
> | Entry1 |    |    |    |    |  NP |
> | Entry2 | 10 | 20 | 30 | 40 |  10 |
> | Entry3 | 10 |    | 20 | 30 | nan |
>
> #+TBLFM: $6=if("$2" == "nan" , string("NP"),($2+$3+$4+$5)/10);E
>
> The last row behaves strangely the cell in the second column is *not*
> empty but the cell in the third one is, nevertheless the cell in the
> last column contains the string nan, which I don't understand.
>
> Any help would be appreciated
>
> Thanks
>
> Uwe Brauer 

The empty column for Entry3 is in column 3 and not column 2.  Try
toggling the Col/Row numbers.

Cheers

Loris

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-05  9:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-05  8:28 problem with empty column Uwe Brauer
2018-01-05  9:25 ` Loris Bennett [this message]
2018-01-05  9:35 ` Eric S Fraga
2018-01-05 12:44   ` Uwe Brauer
2018-01-05 13:55     ` Michael Brand
2018-01-06  8:43       ` Uwe Brauer
2018-01-05 14:46     ` Eric S Fraga
2018-01-06  8:37       ` Uwe Brauer
2018-01-06 11:23         ` Eric S Fraga

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