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tablecreatedesc - Function

	Package	utility
	Module	table

create a table descriptor

Synopsis
tablecreatedesc(columndesc)

Description
Creates a table descriptor from a set of column descriptions. The resulting table descriptor can be used in the constructor.

Any number of column descriptors may be given as arguments. Just add more arguments as needed.

Arguments

columndesc	in	Column descriptor
		Allowed:	Any valid column descriptor

Returns
Table descriptor record

Example

scd1:=tablecreatescalarcoldesc("col2","aa")
scd2:=tablecreatescalarcoldesc("col1",1,"IncrementalStMan")
scd3:=tablecreatescalarcoldesc("colrec1",[=])
acd1:=tablecreatearraycoldesc("arr1",1,0,[2,3,4])
acd2:=tablecreatearraycoldesc("arr2",as_complex(0))
td:=tablecreatedesc(scd1, scd2, scd3, acd1, acd2)
tab:=table("mytable", tabledesc=td, nrow=100)

This creates a table descriptor td from five column descriptors and then creates a 100-row table called mytable from the table descriptor.
The columns contain respectivily strings, integer scalars, records, 3D integer arrays with fixed shape [2,3,4], and complex arrays with variable shape.

See Also
table tablecreatescalardesc tablecreatearraydesc