PennController.GetTable( tablename ).filter( "column" , "match" )
or PennController.GetTable( tablename ).filter( "column" , /match/ )
or PennController.GetTable( tablename ).filter( function )
Returns a filtered version of the table, containing only rows whose specified column’s value is a match.
If you use a string then the column’s value must match the text exactly. Alternatively, you can use a regular expression to test the column’s value. You can also use a function that will take each row as an argument and should return true to keep the row or false to exclude it.
You can use several filters in chain.
Example:
[js highlight=”3,4″ try=”data”]
Template(
GetTable( “spreadsheet.csv” )
.filter( row => row.Item > 0 ) // ‘Item’ should be greater than 0, and
.filter( “ButtonText” , /second/ ) // ‘ButtonText’ should contain ‘second’
,
row => newTrial( “button trial” ,
newButton(“test button”, row.ButtonText)
.print()
.wait()
)
.log( “Item” , row.Item )
.log( “Text” , row.ButtonText )
);
[/js]
Generates only one trial from a subset of the table spreadsheet.csv: first we only consider rows where the value in the Item column is a number greater than 0 (this is practically ineffective, for both rows in spreadsheet.csv already satisfy this condition) and we further consider only rows among those rows where the value of the ButtonText column is a text containing the string second (only the second row satisfies this condition).