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From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: "Parker, Matthew" <MParker@seic.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Using numbers w/ commas in spreadsheets?
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 09:03:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <552EEEB8-3F84-46E4-AF13-83DFE5A542E6@uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9E067A1AECCB154485D4CF7E4BEF4D8E097A1E3B@post07.corp.seic.com>


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On Aug 27, 2008, at 6:18 AM, Parker, Matthew wrote:

> Is it possible to work w/ numbers w/ commas in 'spreadsheets'?

No, this is not possible.

- Carsten

>
> when trying to add 3,000 to 4,000 below...
>   =$1+$2
> ... yields 7
>
> and this works but is long winded:
>   @2$3='(+ (string-to-number (replace-regexp-in-string "," "" $1))  
> (string-to-number (replace-regexp-in-string "," "" $2)) )
>
> I reviewed the chapter on tables... am I missing something simple?
>
> Thanks
>
> | one     | two     | sum                   |
> |---------+---------+-----------------------|
> | 3000    | 4000    | 7000                  |
> | 3,000   | 4,000   | 7                     |
> | 3,000   | 4,000   | 7000                  |
> | "3,000" | "4,000" | [103, 88, 96, 96, 96] |
> | 3\,000  | 4\,000  | #ERROR                |
> | '3,000' | '4,000' | #ERROR                |
> #+TBLFM: @2$3='(+ (string-to-number (replace-regexp-in-string "," ""  
> $1)) (string-to-number (replace-regexp-in-string "," "" $2)) )::@3$3= 
> $1+$2
>
>
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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-27  4:18 Using numbers w/ commas in spreadsheets? Parker, Matthew
2008-09-03  7:03 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]

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