CTAN Update: datatool - ctan-ann

1 Mar 2009


      On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 Nicola Talbot submitted an update to the
datatool
package.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/datatool
Summary description: Tools to load and manipulate data
License type: lppl
Announcement text: 
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v2.0 (2009/02/27):
 datatool.sty:
* Rewritten database internal representation to make the code
   faster (thanks to Morten Ho gholm for the suggestion)
 * added etex as a required package
 * Database columns can now have an associated header (in addition
   to the key)
 * added DTLdisplaydb and DTLdisplaylongdb
 * added DTLremoverow
 * DTLloaddb, DTLloadrawdb:
     - removed unnecessary checks to determine if database 
       exists when adding entries.
     - added optional argument
     - can now also load files without header row
 * DTLsumforkeys, DTLmeanforkeys, DTLvarianceforkeys,
   DTLsdforkeys, DTLminforkeys and DTLmaxforkeys now have a 
   second optional argument
 * added DTLsumcolumn, DTLmeanforcolumn, DTLvarianceforcolumn,
   DTLsdforcolumn, DTLminforcolumn and DTLmaxforcolumn
 * added dtlforeachkey
 * added dtlforint and dtlgforint
 * added dtlforcolumn and dtlforcolumnidx
 * added DTLcolumncount
 * added starred versions of:
   - DTLifdbempty
   - DTLnewrow
 * added DTLifhaskey
 * added DTLgetcolumnindex
 * added DTLunsettype, DTLstringtype, DTLinttype, DTLrealtype
   and DTLcurrencytype
 * added DTLgetdatatype 
 * removed @dtl@setidtype
 * removed @dtl@setkeys
 * removed @dtl@getidtype
 * removed @dtl@ifrowcontains
 * removed dtl@getentryvalue
 * removed dtl@getentryid
 * added dtlgetentryfromcurrentrow
 * added dtlforcolumnindex
dataplot.sty
 * fixed bug causing ! Argument of pgfmath@afterquick has an extra } 
   error
databar.sty
 * added DTLeverybarhook
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   http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/datatool
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=datatool
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schöpf