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From: Andreas Leha <andreas.leha@med.uni-goettingen.de>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: 2 questions on tables
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 11:12:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sizg425i.fsf@med.uni-goettingen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CALn3zojiRyaxsVGBE6-7UGZQwx46J13EzvwvmH2CUnDvzhmncw@mail.gmail.com

Hi Michael,

Michael Brand <michael.ch.brand@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Andreas
>
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Andreas Leha
> <andreas.leha@med.uni-goettingen.de> wrote:
>> I have two questions concerning tables in orgmode:
>
> I try to answer your first question:
>
>> 1. What is the best way to handle missing values?
>>    I have the problem, that missing values ("") are treated as "0" when they
>>    appear in a formula.
>>    Entering ("nil") instead helps a bit, but does not propagate,
>>    i.e. nil + 1 results in 0.
>>    Can I do better?
>
> Is this what you are looking for?:
>
> | Tomato |      |      |
> | Pear   | 3.00 | 6.00 |
> #+TBLFM: $3 = if("$2" == "nan", string(""), 2 * $2 +.0); E f-2
>
> For "E" see
> http://orgmode.org/org.html#Formula-syntax-for-Calc
> and for "+.0; f-2" see
> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.html#table-float-fraction
>
> Michael

thanks a lot!  All three comments (the if() statement, the "E" and the
"f-2") of yours are extremely helpful.

Question one solved.

Cheers,
Andreas

     prev parent reply	other threads:[~2013-07-15  9:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-15  6:47 2 questions on tables Andreas Leha
2013-07-15  8:41 ` Michael Brand
2013-07-15  9:12   ` Andreas Leha [this message]

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