Martin Gross <m-gr...@gmx.net> writes: > Dear Michael, > > thank you very much, this is what I was looking for. I myself > supposed the answer should be related to "remote references", but was > not sure how to use them. > > Just one point is not yet optimum to me: I do not have just 2 tables, > but hundreds. It would be hard and not very clean to add them all one > by one. Do you know if it there is a better way to reference remote > tables?
Not a pure Org-mode solution, but something like the attached could be used to sum up a particular column from every table in a file. Not flexible but possibly sufficient.
#+Title: Example * one table | 1 | 2 | | 2 | 4 | | 3 | 6 | | 4 | 8 | | 5 | 10 | * another table | 20 | 20 | * and one more | 0 | 1 | | 0 | 1 | * here we sum them up #+begin_src sh :results scalar :var file=(buffer-file-name) :var col=1 cat $file|grep "^|"|sed 's/|//g'|awk '{ sum += $1} END{ print sum }' #+end_src #+RESULTS: : 35
> For example telling org-mode to search data from all tables but "this" > one? > With a little more work and one more sed command this could stop processing the file at a particular line or keyword. Hope this helps, > > Best regards, > > Martin > -- Eric Schulte http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte