Re: TableExtract and unlabeled columns

Kragen Sitaker wrote:
> So I hacked in a 'return 1' in _column_wanted, right underneath 'return 0
> unless $tframe', and it seems to convince TableExtract to save the text
> from all the columns, which is pretty much what I wanted, and even does
> so without breaking anything else that I can see, except for presumably
> using more time and space.

This is essentially what the 'keep_all_columns' feature would be doing 
in the next release. Glad you weren't afraid to wade into the source!

> I see that there's an 'umbrella' flag that
> will also make it save everything, but it seems to inherit from table
> to table...

The 'umbrella' flag pertains only to retaining subtables beneath the 
targeted table, not the retained columns in the targeted table itself. 
(though if you can target a table *containing* your target table...this 
is getting into 'chains', though, which might be depracated soon since 
it really needlessly complicates the logic of the module)


> Do you think maybe you could add a million-and-third boolean flag to
> have TableExtract save everything, in order to support applications like
> this without wasting everybody's CPU and RAM?

You read my mind...

Matt





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