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From: Gary <emacs-orgmode@garydjones.name>
Subject: Re: Sorting table columns (*not* content)
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 12:03:18 +0100
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Dan Davison wrote:
> Gary writes:
>
>> Is there any way to sort the columns of a table, such that for example
>>
>> | Col 3 | Col 1 | Col 2 |
>>
>> can be converted to
>>
>> | Col 1 | Col 2 | Col 3 |

> I'd do this using an external language that has a matrix/table data type
> with column indexing.

Well, in the end I just used Excel :">

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