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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