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#### 4.1.1.6 IPAC

CalTech's Infrared Processing and Analysis Center use a text-based format for storage of tabular data, defined at http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/applications/DDGEN/Doc/ipac_tbl.html. Tables can store column name, type, units and null values, as well as table parameters. They typically have a filename extension "`.tbl`" and are used for Spitzer data amongst other things. An example looks like this:

       \title='Animals'
       \ This is a table with some animals in it.
       |   RECNO |    SPECIES |          NAME |    LEGS | HEIGHT   |
       |    char |       char |          char |     int | double   |
       |         |            |               |         | m        |
       |         |            |          null |         |          |
                1          pig   Pigling Bland         4        0.8
                2          cow           Daisy         4          2
                3     goldfish          Dobbin         0       0.05
                4          ant            null         6      0.001

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TOPCAT - Tool for OPerations on Catalogues And Tables
Starlink User Note253
TOPCAT web page: http://www.starlink.ac.uk/topcat/
Author email: m.b.taylor@bristol.ac.uk
Mailing list: topcat-user@jiscmail.ac.uk