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update cells for filters

Update the table cells.

Signature

> update cells {flags} (closure)

Flags

  • --columns, -c {table}: list of columns to update

Parameters

  • closure: the closure to run an update for each cell

Input/output types:

input output
table table

Examples

Update the zero value cells to empty strings.

> [
        ["2021-04-16", "2021-06-10", "2021-09-18", "2021-10-15", "2021-11-16", "2021-11-17", "2021-11-18"];
        [          37,            0,            0,            0,           37,            0,            0]
    ] |update cells { |value|
if$value==0 {
""
          } else {
$value
          }
    }
╭──────┬───────────────┬───────────────┬───────────────┬───────────────┬──────────────┬──────────────┬──────────────╮
# │  2021-04-16   │  2021-06-10   │  2021-09-18   │  2021-10-15   │  2021-11-16  │  2021-11-17  │  2021-11-18  │
├──────┼───────────────┼───────────────┼───────────────┼───────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────┤
03737
╰──────┴───────────────┴───────────────┴───────────────┴───────────────┴──────────────┴──────────────┴──────────────╯

Update the zero value cells to empty strings in 2 last columns.

> [
        ["2021-04-16", "2021-06-10", "2021-09-18", "2021-10-15", "2021-11-16", "2021-11-17", "2021-11-18"];
        [          37,            0,            0,            0,           37,            0,            0]
    ] |update cells-c ["2021-11-18", "2021-11-17"] { |value|
if$value==0 {
""
            } else {
$value
            }
    }
╭──────┬───────────────┬───────────────┬───────────────┬───────────────┬──────────────┬──────────────┬──────────────╮
# │  2021-04-16   │  2021-06-10   │  2021-09-18   │  2021-10-15   │  2021-11-16  │  2021-11-17  │  2021-11-18  │
├──────┼───────────────┼───────────────┼───────────────┼───────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────┤
03700037
╰──────┴───────────────┴───────────────┴───────────────┴───────────────┴──────────────┴──────────────┴──────────────╯

Tips: Command update cells was not included in the official binaries by default, you have to build it with --features=extra flag

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