From: Cecil Westerhof <cldwesterhof@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Check on empty does not work
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2014 13:31:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAG-LmmDkoNKD94nRgvdmAHzbs3q+EfE1trF-DS5fhBEoavc6fg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALn3zogTGDmP1FverkAtmVtdgfa-A_GugBDKKOg0tyDfNYZgcg@mail.gmail.com>
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2014-06-01 12:58 GMT+02:00 Michael Brand <michael.ch.brand@gmail.com>:
> On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Cecil Westerhof <cldwesterhof@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 2014-06-01 11:50 GMT+02:00 Cecil Westerhof <cldwesterhof@gmail.com>:
> >> I am trying the following:
> >> #+TBLFM: @-I$4..@+I$4 = if("$3" == "nan", string(""), $3 - $2) ;
> %.1f
> >> and:
> >> #+TBLFM: @-I$4..@+I$4 = if("$3" == "", string(""), $3 - $2) ; %.1f
> >>
> >> But in both case the fourth field is filled when the third field is
> empty.
> >> What am I doing wrong?
> >>
> >> I am using version 8.2.1.
> >
> > The following does work:
> > #+TBLFM: @-I$4..@+I$4 = if($3 - $2 == -$2, string(""), $3 - $2) ;
> >
> > But is not what is described.
> >
> > I removed
> > %.1f
> > because that displays an empty string as 0.0.
> >
> > Is it possible to use %.1f without making an empty field displayed as
> 0.0?
>
> I suggest that I will improve the TBLFM example about "nan" in the
> manual like this:
>
> `if("$1" == "nan" || "$2" == "nan", string(""), $1 + $2); E f-1'
> Sum of the first two columns. When at least one of the input
> fields is empty the Org table result field is set to empty. `E'
> is required to leave empty fields without conversion to 0. `f-1'
> is an optional Calc format string similar to `%.1f' but leaves
> empty results empty.
>
> Would this have answered all your questions?
>
That does what I want. Thanks.
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Cecil Westerhof
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2014-06-01 9:50 Check on empty does not work Cecil Westerhof
2014-06-01 10:00 ` Cecil Westerhof
2014-06-01 10:58 ` Michael Brand
2014-06-01 11:31 ` Cecil Westerhof [this message]
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