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3.4 Supplied Input Handlers

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.


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STIL - Starlink Tables Infrastructure Library
Starlink User Note 252
STIL web page: http://www.starlink.ac.uk/stil/
Author email: m.b.taylor@bristol.ac.uk
Starlink: http://www.starlink.ac.uk/