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From: Axel Kielhorn <org-mode@axelkielhorn.de>
To: Org-Mode Mailing List <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Two tables with same data but different sorting
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2020 16:36:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CB77DC4-121C-43D9-A814-16FB1DE307B1@axelkielhorn.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ51ETqY-R0Udw=qr2fpUYDt80EjD63HSSgFFsTkj+gmcLwQ9A@mail.gmail.com>



> Am 01.10.2020 um 14:21 schrieb John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>:
> 
> You could do something like this:
> 
> 
> * Table 1
> 
> #+name: table1
> | Manufacturer    | Name        | Price |
> |-----------------+-------------+-------|
> | ACME            | super cheep | 25 $  |
> | Roadrunner Inc. | Kaboom      | 27 $  |
> | ACME            | cheep       | 30 $  |
> 
> #+RESULTS: resorted
> | Manufacturer    | Name        | Price |
> |-----------------+-------------+-------|
> | ACME            | super cheep | 25 $  |
> | ACME            | cheep       | 30 $  |
> | Roadrunner Inc. | Kaboom      | 27 $  |
> 
> ** Code for resorting
> 
> #+name: resorted
> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :var data=table1 :colnames t
> (sort data (lambda (row1 row2) (string< (first row1) (first row2))))
> #+END_SRC
> 
> John
> 

Thanks John, this is really powerful.

I changed =first row1= to =elt row1 6= since my real table is more complex.

(Again I learned a little bit more about elisp.)

Greetings
Axel 



  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-01 14:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-01  8:55 Two tables with same data but different sorting Axel Kielhorn
2020-10-01 12:21 ` John Kitchin
2020-10-01 14:36   ` Axel Kielhorn [this message]
2020-10-01 15:47     ` John Kitchin
2020-10-02  6:25       ` Axel Kielhorn
2020-10-02  9:36         ` Robert Pluim
2020-10-05  8:08           ` Axel Kielhorn
2020-10-05  8:32             ` Robert Pluim
2020-10-05  9:21               ` Axel Kielhorn
2020-10-05  9:45                 ` Robert Pluim
2020-10-02 21:04         ` John Kitchin

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