Thanks a lot for all the suggestions. For the moment I’ve put the table
at the beginning of the file, but I’ll probably tweak the following
functions to use Heikki’s trick of using a regexp to find the named
table.
I don’t think I want to convert the table to a lisp structure, work on
it, and outp
Hi Alan,
Try this function. You can test if the table was found before manipulating
it. Table functions typically work only inside tables, but the #+NAME line
is part of it although it is before the table itself (as defined by
function org-table-begin).
(defun my/org-table-find-by-name (str)
Alan Schmitt writes:
Hi Alan,
> On 2016-09-30 22:52, Thorsten Jolitz writes:
>
>>> Are there functions for manipulating org-tables using emacs-lisp? More
>>> precisely, I would like to refer to a table by its name, read some cells
>>> (either by position or by matching some given text with some
Hi Thorsten,
On 2016-09-30 22:52, Thorsten Jolitz writes:
>> Are there functions for manipulating org-tables using emacs-lisp? More
>> precisely, I would like to refer to a table by its name, read some cells
>> (either by position or by matching some given text with some text in the
>> first row
Alan Schmitt writes:
Hi Alan,
> Are there functions for manipulating org-tables using emacs-lisp? More
> precisely, I would like to refer to a table by its name, read some cells
> (either by position or by matching some given text with some text in the
> first row/column), and write in some cell
