Cfitsio Toolkit - matlab.io.fits.createTbl

: createTbl(file, tbltype, nrows, ttype, tform)

: createTbl(file, tbltype, nrows, ttype, tform, tunit)

: createTbl(file, tbltype, nrows, ttype, tform, tunit, extname)

Create a new ASCII or bintable extension.

This is the equivalent of the cfitsio fits_create_tbl function.

Inputs

file - opened fits file.

tbltype - table type ’binary’ or ’ascii’.

nrows - initial number of rows (normally 0)

ttype - cell array of column type

tform - cell array of column format

tunit - cell array of column units

extname - optional extension name

ttype, tform, tunit are expected to be the same size.

Outputs

None

Examples

 import_fits;
 fd = fits.createFile("test.fits");
 ttype = {'Col1','Col2','Col3','Col4'};
 tform = {'A9','A4','A3','A8'};
 tunit = {'m','s','kg','km'};
 fits.createTbl(fd,'binary',0,ttype,tform,tunit,'table-name');
 fits.closeFile(fd);