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From: Michael Brand <michael.ch.brand@gmail.com>
To: Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Computing the value of some cells of a table using a named code block
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 14:33:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALn3zoht03SKVvdMQ6V=NzP5nASogxQSUqbXLMA3zVqRy3RN4Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2k3b86izy.fsf@polytechnique.org>

Hi Alan

On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Alan Schmitt
<alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org> wrote:
> I have a table that summarizes my monthly budget, and I would like to
> add a column where I compute my actual spending. I can get this
> information using a shell script, but I don't know how to integrate it
> in the table.
>
> Here is a contrived example:
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> #+name: spending
> #+begin_src sh :var category="foo"
> echo $category
> #+end_src
>
> | Category | Budget | Spending |
> |----------+--------+----------|
> | Food     |   1000 |          |
> | Rent     |   1000 |          |
> #+TBLFM: $3=call_spending("$1")
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> My question is: how do I write the TBLFM so that every cell of column
> 3 is the result of call the named block with column 1 as argument?

When there is no named source block involved I use just

| Category | Budget | Spending |
|----------+--------+----------|
| Food     |   1000 | Food     |
| Rent     |   1000 | Rent     |
#+TBLFM: $3 = '(org-trim (shell-command-to-string (concat "echo " $1)))

For named source blocks there is sbe, see Worg.

Michael

  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-02 12:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-02 11:58 Computing the value of some cells of a table using a named code block Alan Schmitt
2014-04-02 12:33 ` Michael Brand [this message]
2014-04-02 13:04   ` Alan Schmitt

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