Here's a screenshot, for those who cannot see the table spacing properly in
the email

http://imgur.com/4W75H

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Sankalp


On 13 January 2012 07:42, Sankalp <sankalpkhare@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I have the following situation :
>
> #+TBLNAME: Totals
> |--------+--------|
> | Name   | Amount |
> |--------+--------|
> | xyz    |     90 |  *<-- should evaluate to 130, not 90*
> |--------+--------|
> | TOTAL  |        |
> |--------+--------|
> #+TBLFM: @2$2=remote(xyz,@>$4)  *<-- I'm trying to refer to the last row,
> 4th column in table xyz*
>
> #+TBLNAME: xyz
> |----------------+----------------------+------------------+--------|
> | Title          | Description          | Date             | Amount |
> |----------------+----------------------+------------------+--------|
> | Trichy Tickets | Trichy Gig Travel    |                  |   1200 |
> | PAID           |                      | [2011-10-16 Sun] |  -1000 |
> | Blah           | Prior to Inorbit Gig | [2011-11-11 Fri] |     90 |
> | InOrbit Money  | Payment for Gig      | [2011-11-11 Fri] |   -200 |
> | Biryani        | Al-Saba              | [2012-01-07 Sat] |    120 |
> | Sub            | Chicken Ham          | [2012-01-12 Thu] |    -75 |
> | Blah           | I had asdad          | [2012-01-12 Thu] |     -5 |
> |----------------+----------------------+------------------+--------|
> | TOTAL          |                      |                  |    130 |
> |----------------+----------------------+------------------+--------|
> #+TBLFM: $4=vsum(@2..@-1)
>
> Instead of showing 130, the formula in the "Totals" table is showing 90.
>
> Upon some investigation, it becomes apparent that even though the formula
> *should* point to the last row in the remote table
> (value 130), "@>" in the remote table reference is actually evaluating to
> "@3" (since the current table has 3 rows) instead
> of evaluating to "@9" as expected (since the remote table has 9 rows).
>
> Is this a bug? or am I making some mistake in the formula.
>
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> Sankalp
>