I was recently using a study table and wanted to find out if a cell contained a structure and what the name of the structure was. I knew I could use the eval command to find out whether the cell contained a structure (by copying to an xsd and seeing if this worked). However, this is not a very elegant solution. A quick chat with my colleague Simon Gray revealed that the ->Name property might work on a study table cell containing a structure. Therefore, I wrote this bit of code which seems to be a quick fix to both of my problems....

my \\\$studyTable = \\\$Documents{"test.std"}; my \\\$numRows = \\\$studyTable->RowCount; my \\\$numColumns = \\\$studyTable->ColumnCount; # Go through each row and column in the study table for (my \\\$row = 0; \\\$row<\\\$numRows;++\\\$row) { for (my \\\$column = 0; \\\$column< \\\$numColumns; ++\\\$column) { # Define a variable to store a name my \\\$name; # Eval whether the column contains a structure eval{\\\$name = \\\$studyTable->Cell(\\\$row, \\\$column)->Name;}; if (\\\$@) { # Cell does not contain a document print "Cell \\\$row \\\$column does not contain a structure\\n"; } else { # Cell contains a structure to work with print "Cell \\\$row \\\$column contains a structure called \\\$name\\n"; } } }

This seems to work for my test study tables so thought I would share it.

Cheers

Stephen