Command/datasetvariable

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Syntax (autogenerated)

\datasetvariable{...}{...}{...}
{...} name
{...} name number
{...} key realpage

Syntax

\datasetvariable{...}{...}{...}
{...} name of data set
{...} name or number of table in data set
{...} variable name

Description

\datasetvariable{mydataset}{mytable}{myvariable}

This command retrieves the value of myvariable in the table mytable stored in the dataset mydataset. Two complete examples are shown below.

Usage

% Define a dataset called 'mysteries'
\definedataset[mysteries]

% The first anonymous table is stored at position 1, the second at position 2, etc.
\setdataset[mysteries][assistant=Watson]

% Retrieving an anonymous table
\datasetvariable{mysteries}{1}{assistant}  % Watson

or

% Define a dataset called 'mysteries'
\definedataset[mysteries]

% Store a key-value dataset called 'Doyle'
\setdataset[mysteries][Doyle][detective=Holmes, assistant=Watson, officer=Lestrade]

% Retrive the variable 'assistant' from the 'Doyle' table in the 'mysteries' dataset
\datasetvariable{mysteries}{Doyle}{assistant}  % Watson

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