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From: John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: extract a region from a table and export it
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 13:23:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2r3bxvyib.fsf@Johns-MacBook-Air.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87porh2jp8.fsf@mat.ucm.es>

(require 'dash)
#+tblname: tab2
| 1 | a | 3 |
| 2 | b | 4 |
| 3 | c | 6 |
| 4 | d | 7 |

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :var c0=tab2[,0] :var c2=tab2[,2]
(-zip-with 'list c0 c2)
#+END_SRC

#+RESULTS:
| 1 | 3 |
| 2 | 4 |
| 3 | 6 |
| 4 | 7 |



Uwe Brauer writes:

>    > Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:
>
>    > See (info "(org) var") in particular the section on "Indexable variable
>    > values".
>
>
>    >         Additionally, an empty index, or the single character ‘*’, are both
>    >      interpreted to mean the entire range and as such are equivalent to
>    >      ‘0:-1’, as shown in the following example in which the entire first
>    >      column is referenced.
>
>    >           #+NAME: example-table
>    >           | 1 | a |
>
>    >           | 2 | b |
>    >           | 3 | c |
>    >           | 4 | d |
>
>    >           #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :var data=example-table[,0]
>    >             data
>    >           #+END_SRC
>
>    >           #+RESULTS:
>    >           | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
>
> It is also not clear to me how you could extract say the first and the
> third column from the following table
>
> | 1 | a | 3 |
> | 2 | b | 4 |
> | 3 | c | 6 |
> | 4 | d | 7 |
>
> Using your approach?


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  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-16 17:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-14 10:44 extract a region from a table and export it Uwe Brauer
2016-06-14 11:14 ` Philip Hudson
2016-06-14 11:19 ` John Kitchin
2016-06-14 12:13   ` Uwe Brauer
2016-06-14 12:17   ` Uwe Brauer
2016-06-14 12:42     ` John Kitchin
2016-06-14 13:10       ` Uwe Brauer
2016-06-14 16:12     ` Rasmus
2016-06-16 16:12       ` Uwe Brauer
2016-06-16 17:18         ` John Kitchin
2016-06-17  8:59           ` Uwe Brauer
2016-06-16 16:16       ` Uwe Brauer
2016-06-16 17:23         ` John Kitchin [this message]
2016-06-17  9:01           ` Uwe Brauer
2016-06-17 11:03             ` John Kitchin
2016-06-17 11:34               ` Rasmus
2016-06-17 13:08                 ` Uwe Brauer
2016-06-17 13:42                   ` Rasmus
2016-06-17 13:42                   ` Rasmus
2016-06-17 17:26                     ` Uwe Brauer
2016-06-17 13:47                   ` John Kitchin
2016-06-17 17:25                     ` Uwe Brauer
2016-06-17 13:07               ` Uwe Brauer

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