The table input handlers supplied with STIL are listed in
this section, along with notes on any peculiarities they have in
turning a string into a StarTable
.
As described in section 3.2, a StarTableFactory
will under normal circumstances recognise a table in any one of these
formats.
In most cases the string supplied to name the table that
StarTableFactory
should read
is a filename or a URL, referencing a plain or compressed copy of
the stream from which the file is available.
In some cases an additional specifier can be given after a '#'
character to give additional information about where in that stream
the table is located.