From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Help with org-lookup-all
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 01:04:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y4u1l2g7.fsf@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 54066DD0.60608@gmail.com
Alan L Tyree <alantyree@gmail.com> writes:
> I feel so dumb!
>
> I have this expession attached to a table: (org-lookup-all $1
> '(remote(payments,@2$4..@>$4)) '(remote(payments,@2$2..@>$2)))
>
> It is returning the right list of numbers since I can examine them
> with (nth n ....
>
> How do I add the list up? I keep getting #ERROR or obviously wrong
> answers. What I want is something like
>
> $2='(apply '+ (org-lookup-all $1 '(remote(payments,@2$4..@>$4))
> '(remote(payments,@2$2..@>$2))))
>
> but that gives me errors since (I presume) the list is a bunch of strings.
>
If they *are* a bunch of strings, then mapping string-to-number across the
list should do the trick:
$2='(apply '+ (mapcar (function string-to-number) (org-lookup-all $1 '(remote(payments,@2$4..@>$4)) '(remote(payments,@2$2..@>$2)))))
--
Nick
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-03 1:24 Help with org-lookup-all Alan L Tyree
2014-09-03 5:04 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2014-09-03 6:18 ` Alan L Tyree
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