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matlab.io.fits.deleteRows

Delete rows from table

Syntax

deleteRows(fptr,firstrow,nrows)

Description

deleteRows(fptr,firstrow,nrows) deletes rows from an ASCII or binary table.

This function corresponds to the fits_delete_rows (ffdrow) function in the CFITSIO library C API.

Examples

Delete the second, third, and fourth rows in a binary table (second HDU).

import matlab.io.*
srcFile = fullfile(matlabroot,'toolbox','matlab','demos','tst0012.fits');
copyfile(srcFile,'myfile.fits');
fileattrib('myfile.fits','+w');
fprintf('Before:  '); fitsdisp('myfile.fits','index',2,'mode','min');
fptr = fits.openFile('myfile.fits','readwrite');
fits.movAbsHDU(fptr,2);
fits.deleteRows(fptr,2,2);
fits.closeFile(fptr);
fprintf('After :  '); fitsdisp('myfile.fits','index',2,'mode','min');