Re: extract a region from a table and export it

[John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>]

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :var data=example-table[,0]
(mapcar 'list data)
#+END_SRC

#+RESULTS:
| 1 |
| 2 |
| 3 |
| 4 |


Uwe Brauer writes:

>    > Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:
>
>    > See (info "(org) var") in particular the section on "Indexable variable
>    > values".
>
>
>    >         Additionally, an empty index, or the single character ‘*’,
>    >         are both
>    >      interpreted to mean the entire range and as such are equivalent to
>    >      ‘0:-1’, as shown in the following example in which the entire first
>    >      column is referenced.
>
>    >           #+NAME: example-table
>    >           | 1 | a |
>
>    >           | 2 | b |
>    >           | 3 | c |
>    >           | 4 | d |
>
>    >           #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :var data=example-table[,0]
>    >             data
>    >           #+END_SRC
>
>    >           #+RESULTS:
>    >           | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
>
> Thanks that looks like a very simple solution, however how can one
> obtain the first column of the table in column format? (I know I could
> transverse it, but just out of curiosity.


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