Re: [bug-recutils] [help-recutils] :cmdline option in ob-rec usage

[Charles Millar]

On 06/05/2015 01:50 PM, Jose E. Marchesi wrote:
>      > | Name            | Address                 | Address_2   | City |
>      > |-----------------+-------------------------+-------------+---------|
>      > | This is Person1 | 123 Some Street         |             | Anytown |
>      > | This is Person2 | 456 Another Lane        |             | Anytown |
>      > | This is Person3 | 789 Whatever Blvd       | Apartment A | Anytown |
>      > | This is Person4 | 001 AndStillAnother Ave |             | Anytown |
>      >
>      > Am I using the :cmdline option correctly?
>
> :cmdline actually does nothing.  You must use :fields instead, like in:
>
> #+begin_src rec :data Testrec1.rec :type Contact :fields Name,Address[0-1],City
>   
> #+end_src
Slowly something is penetrating my skull - essentially in ob-rec.el 
:fields is used as conditional and if true concat the print function for 
each field called- correct?

However, the resulting column order depends upon when the fields are 
first encountered as ob-rec.el works its way through each record in the 
rec:type, i.e. if "This is Person3" is the first record, I get the 
desired result; otherwise the original example the table column order is 
as follows

    | Name            | Address                 | City    | Address_2   |
    |-----------------+-------------------------+---------+-------------|
    | This is Person1 | 123 Some Street         | Anytown |             |
    | This is Person2 | 456 Another Lane        | Anytown |             |
    | This is Person3 | 789 Whatever Blvd       | Anytown | Apartment A |
    | This is Person4 | 001 AndStillAnother Ave | Anytown |             |
    

Is there a way of sorting the output so that the table columns are in 
the order given in :fields?

Charlie