astColumnName

Get the name of the column at a given index within the Table

Description:

This function returns a string holding the name of the column with the given index within the Table.

This function is intended primarily as a means of iterating round all the columns in a Table. For this purpose, the number of columns in the Table is given by the Ncolumn attribute of the Table. This function could then be called in a loop, with the index value going from zero to one less than Ncolumn.

Note, the index associated with a column decreases monotonically with the age of the column: the oldest Column in the Table will have index one, and the Column added most recently to the Table will have the largest index.

Synopsis

const char ∗astColumnName( AstTable ∗this, int index )

Parameters:

this
Pointer to the Table.
index
The index into the list of columns. The first column has index one, and the last has index " Ncolumn" .

Returned Value

astColumnName()
A pointer to a null-terminated string containing the upper case column name.

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