* How to use symbolic names to refer to spreadsheet fields containing irregular values
@ 2016-08-03 21:31 Christoph LANGE
2016-08-04 6:42 ` Michael Brand
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From: Christoph LANGE @ 2016-08-03 21:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Dear all,
I would like to make the following work (with Org 8.3.5):
|---+----------+--------+---|
| | 13:13 | - | 1 |
| ^ | h | s | n |
|---+----------+--------+---|
| | 13:13:00 | #ERROR | 1 |
|---+----------+--------+---|
#+TBLFM: @3$2=$h;T::@3$3=$s::@3$4=$n
I can give the field @1$2 the symbolic name $h, I can give the field
@1$4 the symbolic name $n, and I can successfully refer to both of them
in @3.
However I didn't manage to refer to @1$3 using the symbolic name $s.
The reason must be the value "-". If I use an alphabetic string value,
it works.
Any ideas? Or is this a bug?
Thank you very much in advance,
Christoph
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* Re: How to use symbolic names to refer to spreadsheet fields containing irregular values
2016-08-03 21:31 How to use symbolic names to refer to spreadsheet fields containing irregular values Christoph LANGE
@ 2016-08-04 6:42 ` Michael Brand
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From: Michael Brand @ 2016-08-04 6:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Christoph LANGE; +Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Hi Christoph
On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 11:31 PM, Christoph LANGE
<math.semantic.web@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to make the following work (with Org 8.3.5):
>
> |---+----------+--------+---|
> | | 13:13 | - | 1 |
> | ^ | h | s | n |
> |---+----------+--------+---|
> | | 13:13:00 | #ERROR | 1 |
> |---+----------+--------+---|
> #+TBLFM: @3$2=$h;T::@3$3=$s::@3$4=$n
>
> I can give the field @1$2 the symbolic name $h, I can give the field
> @1$4 the symbolic name $n, and I can successfully refer to both of them
> in @3.
>
> However I didn't manage to refer to @1$3 using the symbolic name $s.
> The reason must be the value "-". If I use an alphabetic string value,
> it works.
>
> Any ideas? Or is this a bug?
>
> Thank you very much in advance,
"-" is not a valid Calc expression. To copy literally one needs a Lisp
formula:
|---+----------+---+---|
| | 13:13 | - | 1 |
| ^ | h | s | n |
|---+----------+---+---|
| | 13:13:00 | - | 1 |
|---+----------+---+---|
#+TBLFM: @3$2 = $h; T :: @3$3 = '(identity "$s") :: @3$4 = $n
Michael
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