Re: Two tables with same data but different sorting

[Axel Kielhorn]

> Am 01.10.2020 um 14:21 schrieb John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>:
> 
> You could do something like this:
> 
> 
> * Table 1
> 
> #+name: table1
> | Manufacturer    | Name        | Price |
> |-----------------+-------------+-------|
> | ACME            | super cheep | 25 $  |
> | Roadrunner Inc. | Kaboom      | 27 $  |
> | ACME            | cheep       | 30 $  |
> 
> #+RESULTS: resorted
> | Manufacturer    | Name        | Price |
> |-----------------+-------------+-------|
> | ACME            | super cheep | 25 $  |
> | ACME            | cheep       | 30 $  |
> | Roadrunner Inc. | Kaboom      | 27 $  |
> 
> ** Code for resorting
> 
> #+name: resorted
> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :var data=table1 :colnames t
> (sort data (lambda (row1 row2) (string< (first row1) (first row2))))
> #+END_SRC
> 
> John
> 

Thanks John, this is really powerful.

I changed =first row1= to =elt row1 6= since my real table is more complex.

(Again I learned a little bit more about elisp.)

Greetings
Axel