> Uwe Brauer <o...@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.