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Dear list,

I have problems with exploiting /programatically/ the structure of an Org table :

I want to write function acting on complex tables, where the original information is presented along various statistics. My idea is to isolate the original information in a range delimited (by convention) by the first and second hlines and  by the first and last columns ; the function should accept the whole table and retrieve the original data. /The point is that the function should accept a variable number of lines in both the "original data" range and the summary information./

Let =ttest= such a table with =hlines= :

#+begin_src org :eval yes :exports both :results replace
,#+name: ttest
| ttest | c1 | c2 | rSum |
|-------+----+----+------|
|     3 |  3 |  5 |    8 |
|     8 |  8 | 12 |   20 |
|-------+----+----+------|
|  cSum | 11 | 17 |   28 |
,#+TBLFM: @>$2..@>$>=vsum(@I..@II)::@2..@>>$4=vsum($<<..$>>)
#+end_src

#+RESULTS:
#+name: ttest
| ttest | c1 | c2 | rSum |
|-------+----+----+------|
|     3 |  3 |  5 |    8 |
|     8 |  8 | 12 |   20 |
|-------+----+----+------|
|  cSum | 11 | 17 |   28 |
#+TBLFM: @>$2..@>$>=vsum(@I..@II)::@2..@>>$4=vsum($<<..$>>)

Passing this table as an argument to source code loses the hlines :

#+begin_src  org :eval yes :exports both :results replace
,#+begin_src emacs-lisp :exports results :results drawer :var foo=ttest
  foo
,#+end_src
#+end_src

The structure allowing to retrieve the original data is lost.

The point is that the source code can't exploit the hlines to find relevant information (in the present case, the lines between the hlines).

Alternatively, one may try and pass the relevant range, using =foo=(org-table-get-remote-range "ttest" "@I$<<..@II$>>")= as an argument. This fails for a different reason :

#+begin_src org :eval yes :exports both :results replace
,#+begin_src emacs-lisp :exports results :results drawer :var foo=(org-table-get-remote-range "ttest" "@I$<<..@II$>>")
  foo
,#+end_src
#+end_src

Again, the structure is lost : this time, =foo= is a "flattened" vector, whose matricial shape is lost to the processing function.

I am looking for explanations and/or hints.

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