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From: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: manipulate org tables using emacs-lisp
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Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org> 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 cells.

,----[ C-h f org-table-to-lisp RET ]
| org-table-to-lisp is an autoloaded compiled Lisp function in
| ‘../org-mode/lisp/org-table.el’.
| 
| (org-table-to-lisp &optional TXT)
| 
| Convert the table at point to a Lisp structure.
| The structure will be a list.  Each item is either the symbol ‘hline’
| for a horizontal separator line, or a list of field values as strings.
| The table is taken from the parameter TXT, or from the buffer at point.
| 
| [back]
`----

returns the table as a nested list you can map with lots of Elisp
functions (like mapcar). 

Ex.:

| my | tab |
|  1 |   2 |

=>

(("my" "tab") ("1" "2"))

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten