org.jscience.io.fits
Class FitsASCIIColumn

java.lang.Object
  org.jscience.io.fits.FitsColumn
      org.jscience.io.fits.FitsASCIIColumn

public class FitsASCIIColumn
extends FitsColumn

represents a column in an ASCII table extension

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.jscience.io.fits.FitsColumn

bytes, count, form, representation, type

Constructor Summary

FitsASCIIColumn(FitsHeader header, int col)
Create a new column object which will represent the given column in the given FITS header.

Method Summary

int	getDecimals() Returns the number of decimal places used to represent floating point numbers in this column.
int	getStartByte() Returns the byte offset of the first byte in this column with respect to the beginning of a row.

Methods inherited from class org.jscience.io.fits.FitsColumn

getCount, getElementSize, getName, getUnits, getWidth, isScaled, rawRepresentation, represent, represent, represent, represent, represent, represent, represent, represent, represent, scale, scaledRepresentation, unscale

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

FitsASCIIColumn

public FitsASCIIColumn(FitsHeader header,
                       int col)
                throws FitsException

Create a new column object which will represent the given column in the given FITS header.

Parameters:

header - A FITS header describing the column

col - the column to read from the FITS file. Note: this value counts from "1" unlike most other column indices in this package.

Throws:

FitsException - DOCUMENT ME!

Method Detail

getStartByte

public int getStartByte()

Returns the byte offset of the first byte in this column with respect to the beginning of a row.

Returns:

the byte offset of this column.

getDecimals

public int getDecimals()

Returns the number of decimal places used to represent floating point numbers in this column.

Returns:

the number of decimal places in this column or zero if this is not a floating point column.