The saveTable() function is used to save a p5.Table object to a file. The format of the file saved can be defined as a parameter to the function. By default, it saves a text file with comma-separated-values, however, it can be used to save it using-tab separated-values or generate an HTML table from it.
Syntax:
saveTable( Table, filename, options )
Parameters: This function accept three parameters as mentioned above and described below:
- Table: This is a p5.Table object that would be saved to the file.
- filename: It specifies the string that is used as the filename of the saved file.
- options: It is a string which denotes the format of the table to be saved. It can be either “csv” which saves the table using comma-separated-values, “tsv” which saves the table using tab-separated-values, or “html” which generates an HTML table. It is an optional parameter.
Below example illustrates the saveTable() function in p5.js:
Example:
function setup() { createCanvas(600, 300); textSize(20); text("Click on the button below to " + "save the Table Object", 20, 20); text("Select the output format:", 20, 60); // Create radio button for choosing // file format to save the table radio = createRadio(); radio.position(30, 80); radio.option('csv'); radio.option('tsv'); radio.option('html'); // Create a button for saving the Table object saveBtn = createButton("Save Table to file"); saveBtn.position(30, 120); saveBtn.mousePressed(saveFile); // Create the table for saving to file table = new p5.Table(); table.addColumn('Invention'); table.addColumn('Inventors'); let tableRow = table.addRow(); tableRow.setString('Invention', 'Telescope'); tableRow.setString('Inventors', 'Galileo'); tableRow = table.addRow(); tableRow.setString('Invention', 'Steam Engine'); tableRow.setString('Inventors', 'James Watt'); tableRow = table.addRow(); tableRow.setString('Invention', 'Radio'); tableRow.setString('Inventors', 'Guglielmo Marconi'); } function saveFile() { // Get the output format selected // from the radio buttons outputFormat = radio.value(); // Save the table to file with the given format saveTable(table, 'tableOutput', outputFormat); } |
Output:
Online editor: https://editor.p5js.org/
Environment Setup: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/p5-js-soundfile-object-installation-and-methods/
Reference: https://p5js.org/reference/#/p5/saveTable
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