> Uwe Brauer <o...@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?