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From: Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org>
To: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: manipulate org tables using emacs-lisp
Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2016 10:44:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2oa345ugr.fsf@polytechnique.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k2dtm7or.fsf@gmail.com> (Thorsten Jolitz's message of "Fri, 30 Sep 2016 22:52:36 +0200")

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Hi Thorsten,

On 2016-09-30 22:52, Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> writes:

>> Are there functions for manipulating org-tables using emacs-lisp? More
>> precisely, I would like to refer to a table by its name, read some cells
>> (either by position or by matching some given text with some text in the
>> first row/column), and write in some cells.
>
> ,----[ C-h f org-table-to-lisp RET ]
> | org-table-to-lisp is an autoloaded compiled Lisp function in
> | ‘../org-mode/lisp/org-table.el’.
> | 
> | (org-table-to-lisp &optional TXT)
> | 
> | Convert the table at point to a Lisp structure.
> | The structure will be a list.  Each item is either the symbol ‘hline’
> | for a horizontal separator line, or a list of field values as strings.
> | The table is taken from the parameter TXT, or from the buffer at point.
> | 
> | [back]
> `----
>
> returns the table as a nested list you can map with lots of Elisp
> functions (like mapcar). 
>
> Ex.:
>
> | my | tab |
> |  1 |   2 |
>
> =>
>
> (("my" "tab") ("1" "2"))

This is very useful, thank you. But how do I go to a named table? I
found org-babel-goto-named-block, but nothing for tables.

Thanks again,

Alan

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next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2016-10-01  8:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-30  6:27 manipulate org tables using emacs-lisp Alan Schmitt
2016-09-30 20:52 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2016-10-01  8:44   ` Alan Schmitt [this message]
2016-10-01 16:32     ` Thorsten Jolitz
2016-10-02  7:19     ` Heikki Lehvaslaiho
2016-10-03 12:58       ` Alan Schmitt

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