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SDDS_FindColumn
- name:
SDDS_FindColumn
- description:
Determine if a column exists.
- synopsis: #include "SDDS.h"
char *SDDS_FindColumn(SDDS_TABLE *SDDS_table, long mode, ...);
- arguments:
- SDDS_table: Address of the SDDS_TABLE structure for the data set.
- mode: Valid modes are FIND_SPECIFIED_TYPE, FIND_ANY_TYPE, FIND_NUMERIC_TYPE, FIND_FLOATING_TYPE, FIND_INTEGER_TYPE
- ...: If mode is FIND_SPECIFIED_TYPE it expects an SDDS data type followed by a list of column names followed by NULL. Otherwise it expects a list of column names followed by NULL.
- return value:
On success it returns the name of the last column specified. On error it returns a NULL and records an error message.
- see also:
Robert Soliday
2006-06-29