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POSITION

The way in which the location of columns in the table are specified in a small text list. The options are:

  COLUMN
Each column is identified by a sequence number (starting at one). This method is suitable for free format small text lists.

  CHARACTER
Each column is identified by the sequence number of the first character (starting at one) corresponding to it in each line, record or row of the table. This option is suitable for fixed format small text files. Characters in the input lines are counted starting at one.



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CURSA Catalogue and Table Manipulation Applications
Starlink User Note 190
A.C. Davenhall
4th November 2001
E-mail:starlink@jiscmail.ac.uk

Copyright © 2001 Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils