Method Column

pkg/tabular/tabular.go:111–132

Column returns the values of the column whose header matches name case-insensitively (trimming surrounding whitespace), with empty and whitespace-only cells dropped, and whether such a column exists.

(name string)

// case-insensitively (trimming surrounding whitespace), with empty and
// whitespace-only cells dropped, and whether such a column exists.
func (t *Table) Column(name string) ([]string, bool) {
	var header string
	found := false
	for _, h := range t.Header {
		if strings.EqualFold(strings.TrimSpace(h), strings.TrimSpace(name)) {
			header = h
			found = true
			break
		}
	}
	if !found {
		return nil, false
	}

	values := make([]string, 0, len(t.Rows))
	for _, row := range t.Rows {
		if v := strings.TrimSpace(row[header]); v != "" {
			values = append(values, v)
		}
	}
	return values, true
}

// decode normalizes the input to UTF-8, using the BOM (if any) to detect
// UTF-16; defaults to UTF-8 when no BOM is present, stripping a UTF-8 BOM.