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Re: Conventional way of doing "struct"-like things?

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  • Subject: [mg104615] Re: Conventional way of doing "struct"-like things?
  • From: Erik Max Francis <max at alcyone.com>
  • Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 03:47:51 -0500 (EST)
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Uayeb wrote:
> Then I can get the list of y values with
> getTabularData[data,"y"]
> 
> or the list of {x, y} values with
> getTabularData[data,{"x","y"}]
> 
> Don't know if this is really appropriate to your situation, but I find
> it very helpful, particularly if I later add a column "name" between
> "id" and "x"!
> 
> Thoughts?

It isn't relevant to most of the data sets that I'm dealing with but 
it's a neat idea.  I'm stowing it away for future reference, thanks!

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