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7 years ago Migrated from SourceForge https://sourceforge.net/p/pgfplots/bugs/170/#60d7 Author: cfeuersaenger Timestamp: 2017-06-03 22:08:19.778000
I see that a complete table API has its uses. However, \pgfplotstablegetcolumnnamebyindex alone does not help much since it resembles a column vector -- and you still need a public API to access its members.
Thus, documenting it as "public API" would necessarily need to document its variants "getcolumnbyname" and the associated routines to work with the column vectors. Even if I did it, it still sounds crude and perhaps I can replace the implementation eventually (because they are not really vectors -- they are lists with all performance penalties).
I would rather keep them part of the internal documentation. Perhaps we can come up with a rich public API eventually. That would, indeed, be a major improvement for power users.
Closing ticket.
Migrated from SourceForge https://sourceforge.net/p/pgfplots/bugs/170/ Author: mo-gul Timestamp: 2017-05-18 17:29:59.434000
It would be nice, if the command
\pgfplotstablegetcolumnnamebyindexcould be documented.This could be done in section 5.5 near the entry
\pgfplotstablegetelem.