The values array must have length 2. The first element is the starting index of the substring and the second element is its length. This would be simpler and more readable as two separate TOML attributes, like this:
The first step would be to deprecate the old values array and support the new attributes. During this step, we would still accept the values array, but we would internally convert it to a start_index and length and print a deprecation message. Then in hlink v4.0 or whenever else we make breaking changes, we could drop support for the values array entirely and just support the separate attributes.
The
substringcolumn mapping transform lets you extract substrings from a string column. Currently, its configuration looks like this:The
valuesarray must have length 2. The first element is the starting index of the substring and the second element is its length. This would be simpler and more readable as two separate TOML attributes, like this:The first step would be to deprecate the old
valuesarray and support the new attributes. During this step, we would still accept thevaluesarray, but we would internally convert it to astart_indexandlengthand print a deprecation message. Then in hlink v4.0 or whenever else we make breaking changes, we could drop support for thevaluesarray entirely and just support the separate attributes.