Alan L Tyree <alanty...@gmail.com> writes: > I feel so dumb! > > I have this expession attached to a table: (org-lookup-all $1 > '(remote(payments,@2$4..@>$4)) '(remote(payments,@2$2..@>$2))) > > It is returning the right list of numbers since I can examine them > with (nth n .... > > How do I add the list up? I keep getting #ERROR or obviously wrong > answers. What I want is something like > > $2='(apply '+ (org-lookup-all $1 '(remote(payments,@2$4..@>$4)) > '(remote(payments,@2$2..@>$2)))) > > but that gives me errors since (I presume) the list is a bunch of strings. >
If they *are* a bunch of strings, then mapping string-to-number across the list should do the trick: $2='(apply '+ (mapcar (function string-to-number) (org-lookup-all $1 '(remote(payments,@2$4..@>$4)) '(remote(payments,@2$2..@>$2))))) -- Nick
