nom.tam.fits
Class Column

java.lang.Object
  nom.tam.fits.Column

public class Column
extends java.lang.Object

Keep header and data information for a column from a FITS table.

Constructor Summary

Column()
Create an empty column

Method Summary

void	addKey(java.lang.String key) Add a key to the keys associated with this column.
java.lang.Object[]	getData() Return the data.
java.lang.String[]	getKeys(int colNumber) Get the keywords associated with the column.
void	setData(java.lang.Object[] data) Initialize the data segment.
void	setKeys(java.lang.String[] keys) Set the FITS keywords associated with this column.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

Column

public Column()

Create an empty column

Method Detail

setData

public void setData(java.lang.Object[] data)

Initialize the data segment. Each element of data should be an N-dimensional primitive array.

Parameters:

data - The column data.

getData

public java.lang.Object[] getData()

Return the data.

setKeys

public void setKeys(java.lang.String[] keys)

Set the FITS keywords associated with this column. These may have just the base of the keyword (e.g, "TFORM"), or have a column number appended. The correct column number will be put in by getKeys when the header information is retrieved.

getKeys

public java.lang.String[] getKeys(int colNumber)

Get the keywords associated with the column.

Parameters:

colNumber - the FITS column number that will be associated with this column.

addKey

public void addKey(java.lang.String key)

Add a key to the keys associated with this column.

Parameters:

key - The new key.