Hi Jarmo On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Jarmo Hurri <jarmo.hu...@syk.fi> wrote: > I ran into this problem while trying to make a contribution by > implementing functions corresponding to vlookup and hlookup in > traditional spreadsheets. I have only used relatively basic properties > of org, so there might be a simple solution that I just don't know.
Only now I see that this second part with the actual problem of your original post is still unanswered. Does this help?: | key (ordered) | val | | val (ordered) | key | |---------------+-----+---+---------------+-----| | 8 | foo | | bar | 42 | | 42 | bar | | foo | 8 | #+TBLFM: $5 = '(nth (position $4 '(@<<$2..@>$2) :test 'equal) '(@<<$1..@>$1)) Michael
