Re: [O] Help with org-lookup-all

[Nick Dokos]

Alan L Tyree <address@hidden> writes:

> I feel so dumb!
>
> I have this expession attached to a table: (org-lookup-all $1
> '(remote(payments,@2$4..@>$4)) '(remote(payments,@2$2..@>$2)))
>
> It is returning the right list of numbers since I can examine them
> with (nth n ....
>
> How do I add the list up? I keep getting #ERROR or obviously wrong
> answers. What I want is something like
>
>  $2='(apply '+ (org-lookup-all $1 '(remote(payments,@2$4..@>$4))
> '(remote(payments,@2$2..@>$2))))
>
> but that gives me errors since (I presume) the list is a bunch of strings.
>

If they *are* a bunch of strings, then mapping string-to-number across the
list should do the trick:


 $2='(apply '+ (mapcar (function string-to-number) (org-lookup-all $1 
'(remote(payments,@2$4..@>$4)) '(remote(payments,@2$2..@>$2)))))

-- 
Nick