CCfits - HEASARC - NASA

8 Creating and Writing to a Binary Table Extension 18
pFits->pHDU().addKey("STRING",std::string(" Rope "),"trailing blank
test 1 ");
pFits->pHDU().addKey("STRING2",std::string("Cord"),"trailing blank test
2 ");
// demonstrate increaing number of rows and null values.
long ignoreVal(12112);
long nullNumber(-999);
try
{
// add a TNULLn value to column 2.
newTable->column(colName[1]).addNullValue(nullNumber);
// test that writing new data properly expands the number of rows
// in both the file]).write(planets,rows-3);
newTable->column(colName[2]).write(density,rows,rows-3);
// test the undefined value functionality. Undefineds are replaced on
// disk but not in the memory copy.
newTable->column(colName[1]).write(diameter,rows,rows-3,&ignoreVal);
}
catch (FitsException&)
{
// this time we’re going to ignore problems in these operations
}
// output header information to check that everything we did so far
// hasn’t corrupted the file.
std::cout pHDU() addColumn(Tstring,"Mnemonic",10," words ");
newTable->column("Mnemonic").write(mnemon,1);
// write the data string.
newTable->writeDate();
// and see if it all worked right.
std::cout