5.7.3 Routines to Edit Rows or Columns

1

Insert or delete rows in an ASCII or binary table. When inserting rows all the rows following row FROW are shifted down by NROWS rows; if FROW = 0 then the blank rows are inserted at the beginning of the table. The first delete routine deletes NROWS consecutive rows starting with row FIRSTROW. The second delete routine takes an input string that lists the rows or row ranges (e.g., '5-10,12,20-30'), whereas the third delete routine takes an input integer array that specifies each individual row to be deleted. In both latter cases, the input list of rows to delete must be sorted in ascending order. These routines update the NAXIS2 keyword to reflect the new number of rows in the table.        

  int fits_insert_rows / ffirow
      (fitsfile *fptr, long firstrow, long nrows, > int *status)

  int fits_delete_rows / ffdrow
      (fitsfile *fptr, long firstrow, long nrows, > int *status)

  int fits_delete_rowrange / ffdrrg
      (fitsfile *fptr, char *rangelist, > int *status)

  int fits_delete_rowlist / ffdrws
      (fitsfile *fptr, long *rowlist, long nrows, > int *status)

2

Insert or delete column(s) in an ASCII or binary table. When inserting, COLNUM specifies the column number that the (first) new column should occupy in the table. NCOLS specifies how many columns are to be inserted. Any existing columns from this position and higher are shifted over to allow room for the new column(s). The index number on all the following keywords will be incremented or decremented if necessary to reflect the new position of the column(s) in the table: TBCOLn, TFORMn, TTYPEn, TUNITn, TNULLn, TSCALn, TZEROn, TDISPn, TDIMn, TLMINn, TLMAXn, TDMINn, TDMAXn, TCTYPn, TCRPXn, TCRVLn, TCDLTn, TCROTn, and TCUNIn.      

  int fits_insert_col / fficol
      (fitsfile *fptr, int colnum, char *ttype, char *tform,
       > int *status)

  int fits_insert_cols / fficls
      (fitsfile *fptr, int colnum, int ncols, char **ttype,
       char **tform, > int *status)

  int fits_delete_col / ffdcol(fitsfile *fptr, int colnum, > int *status)

3

Copy a column from one HDU to another (or to the same HDU). If create_col = TRUE, then a new column will be inserted in the output table, at position `outcolumn', otherwise the existing output column will be overwritten (in which case it must have a compatible datatype). If outcolnum is greater than the number of column in the table, then the new column will be appended to the end of the table. Note that the first column in a table is at colnum = 1. The standard indexed keywords that related to the column (e.g., TDISPn, TUNITn, TCRPXn, TCDLTn, etc.) will also be copied.  

  int fits_copy_col / ffcpcl
      (fitsfile *infptr, fitsfile *outfptr, int incolnum, int outcolnum,
       int create_col, > int *status);

4

Modify the vector length of a binary table column (e.g., change a column from TFORMn = '1E' to '20E'). The vector length may be increased or decreased from the current value.  

  int fits_modify_vector_len / ffmvec
      (fitsfile *fptr, int colnum, long newveclen, > int *status)