CCfits - HEASARC - NASA

7 Creating and Writing to an Ascii Table Extension 17
121000};
float density[] = { 5.1f, 5.3f, 5.52f, 3.94f, 1.33f, 0.69
f};
// append a new ASCII table to the fits file. Note that the user
// cannot call the Ascii or Bin Table constructors directly as they
// are protected.
Table* newTable = pFits->addTable(hduName,rows,colName,colForm,colUnit,
AsciiTbl);
size_t j = 0;
for ( ; j < rows; ++j) planets[j] = string(planet[j]);
// Table::column(const std::string& name) returns a reference to a Column
object
try
{
newTable->column(colName[0]).write(planets,1);
newTable->column(colName[1]).write(diameter,rows,1);
newTable->column(colName[2]).write(density,rows,1);
}
catch (FitsException&)
{
// ExtHDU::column could in principle throw a NoSuchColumn exception,
// or some other fits error may ensue.
std::cerr