How to export table from a src block?

How to export table from a src block?

[William Denton]

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I have a big table (with #+NAME: mytable).  I can export it to a CSV file by 
hand by having the point somewhere in the table and running

M-x org-table-export

but how could I do this from a source block?  I've got one line so far, but how 
would I get it to be in the table when it runs?  There's nothing else in this 
file, just a table and then this source block.

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(org-table-export "/tmp/mytable.csv" "orgtbl-to-csv")
#+END_SRC

Any help appreciated!

Bill
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Re: How to export table from a src block?

[John Kitchin]

Try this:

* Export table from src-block

#+name: mytable
| a | b |
| 1 | 2 |
| 3 | 4 |


#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(save-excursion
  (org-open-link-from-string "[[mytable]]")
  (while (not (org-table-p)) (forward-line))
  (org-table-export "mytable.csv" "orgtbl-to-csv"))
#+END_SRC
#+RESULTS:
: Export done.

#+BEGIN_SRC sh
cat mytable.csv
#+END_SRC
#+RESULTS:
: a,b
: 1,2
: 3,4



William Denton writes:

> I have a big table (with #+NAME: mytable).  I can export it to a CSV file by
> hand by having the point somewhere in the table and running
>
> M-x org-table-export
>
> but how could I do this from a source block?  I've got one line so far, but how
> would I get it to be in the table when it runs?  There's nothing else in this
> file, just a table and then this source block.
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
> (org-table-export "/tmp/mytable.csv" "orgtbl-to-csv")
> #+END_SRC
>
> Any help appreciated!
>
> Bill


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