DELETECOL

Purpose:

Deletes one or more columns from a table.

DELETECOL(series, columns)

series	-	A series or table.
column	-	A series of integers specifying the columns to remove.

A series or table.

W1: ravel(1..16, 4)

W2: deletecol(W1, {2})

W1 contains the table:

{{1, 5, 9, 13},

{2, 6, 10, 14},

{3, 7, 11, 15},

{4, 8, 12, 16}}

W2 contains the table:

{{1, 9, 13},

{2, 10, 14},

{3, 11, 15},

{4, 12, 16}}

W3: deletecol(W1, {1, 4, 2})

W3 contains the single column series {9, 10, 11, 12}.

The columns to removed specified by the columns series can be in any order.

Values can also be deleted by assigning the empty series. For example:

a = ravel(1..16, 4);

a[.., 3] = {}

a == {{1, 5, 13},

{2, 6, 14},

{3, 7, 15},

{4, 8, 16}}

See DELETEROW to delete rows.