Queries in numbers

Question

Is it possible to do a query in Numbers?
For instance. I have a list of rows where it is something like:
LocationA $15,000 47 91 A
LocationB $23,000 27 105 L
LocationA ....
LocationC ...
LocationB ...
And I want to have a separate table where I pull out just the lines for LocationA or LocationB.
I see Vlookup but it appears to find the first and only the first one and the data in the column you specify. That is ok except that I can't figure out how to pull it out for the rest of the rows. I hope that makes sense. I realize I have to do this in each cell (at least I expect to). So basically I'm looking for a query more than a lookup.
The result would be:
LocationB ...
LocationB ...
LocationB ...

Answer 1

Sorry, I've been away from the computer for a while...
Spreadsheets, Numbers or others, can be quite obtuse. This concept of filtering one table into another I think is generally useful and it would behoove Apple to make this simpler to do. Forgive me if you have figured some of this out already, but I will endeavor to explain this technique:
The crux is the formulas in column A of the "Result" table, starting in the second row. They are all basically the same so understanding the A2 formula is sufficient.
=MATCH(Query :: value $location,OFFSET(Places :: $location,A1,0,ROWS(Places :: $location)),0)+A1
Starting in the middle (naturally, ) the OFFSET function is an odd beast. It doesn't return a value as most functions do, but instead a range of cells. In this case it is used to return a range of cells in the "Places" table. The range of cells is initially the entire location column in the "Places" table, row 2 thru 6. I would tell you to try to evaluate just the OFFSET function by itself in the cell, but the result that is displayed, the value of the first cell in the range, is not really useful in understanding what it really returns. In subsequent column A formulas of table "Result", this range is narrowed by starting in the last location of the previously MATCHed result while running to the end. This is accomplished by the second argument of the OFFSET function referring to the previous cell's result.
With that understood, things get simpler. The MATCH function searches the range generated by INDEX. It searches for the value entered in the little "Query" table, allowing the desired location to be entered easily without editing formulas. The result of the MATCH is the location within the range provided by INDEX. To get the actual index, we must add to it the result from the previous formula in the column. Notice that in row 1 of column A there is a zero. This gets the first formula started and allows all the rest of the formulas to be expressed in the same way (to facilitate filling down when more query result rows are required).
The other columns in "Result" table are all similar. They use the index into the "Places" table computed in column A to copy matching "Places" table values into the result table. Obvious, perhaps, is that any subset of values could be copied, whatever is necessary; I've just done them all since I didn't really know what your example is about. Looking at the formula in any of these cells (they are all basically the same):
=IF(ISERROR($A2),"",INDEX(Places ::price ,$A2))
Again starting in the middle with the INDEX function, this time it is generating a single cell within the column of the "Places" table, in this case the price column. The cell is the index computed in the for this row's query result from column A. The $ in $A2 produces an absolute reference to the column (but not the row) which facilitates filling this formula right to produce values from other columns of the "Places" table.
The enclosing IF function simply avoids the INDEXing if the query index column A has found no more matches (the case when there are too many rows in the "Results" table).